On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WBrown wrote:
A collegue sent me this:
"The next planned widespread of 2005?s most prolific e-mail worm,
Sober, is scheduled to start on January 5, 2006 based on commands
hard-coded within the worm."
http://www.it-observer.com/articles.php?id=972
"The attack date coincides with the 87th anniversary of the Nazi party"
:rolleyes:
Sober virus writers do this for money, they don't do it because of some
nebulous connection to the Nazis.
Sadly, the Sober author(s) do seem to do it for the nebulous connection:
Here's F-Secure's writeup on the impending outbreak:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/
And here's their writeup on Sober.Y (CME-681)
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/sober_y.shtml
And do read the Sober.Q writeup as well (Sober is the fine virus that
brings us the "German Spam" we all know and love)
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/sober_q.shtml
-n
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