Sobig-F timed for Trojan download tonight?
By John Leyden - http://www.theregister.com/content/56/32475.html

The prolific mass-mailing Sobig-F email worm, which has flooded computer
users this week, could attempt to download a Trojan horse tonight,
anti-virus companies are warning.

The worm has been programmed to automatically direct infected PCs to a
server controlled by the virus writer from which a malicious program
could be downloaded. It is timed to do so at 19:00-22:00 GMT on Fridays
and Sundays.

At the moment, it is unclear what the download material will do, or even
the Internet address of the server from which the worm will download
malicious code. Likewise, it's unclear if any attack will succeed.

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