Sober worm spreads like wildfire

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: cjgallen

Variants of Sober have been circulated since 2003 and have continued to hit corporate and home systems.

That's a long time!

Someone should mass email virus killing executables.

No don't. It's just that silly SkyNet trying to trick us again. Silly SkyNet.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: jjones

Originally posted by: CPA
How does 77% equate to 2/3s?

Fuzzy math?

The 77% figure was given by one source, but doesn't necessarily mean the Total. Meaning that the "2/3" and "77%" figures were not the same nor are they meant to be the same.

 

[Anonemous]

Originally posted by: Toasthead

Originally posted by: hevnsnt

"The latest Sober offshoot, which has been tagged as Sober.N, Sober.O or Sober.S at other security companies, uses e-mail written in both English and German. One of its lures is a message saying the recipient has won free tickets to the 2006 World Cup soccer tournament."

In otherwords.. The US is safe.

hahahahaha

True dat.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Sober worm now 4 percent of all email


May 4, 2005 - 15:01 EST

One in every 22 emails circulating the Internet on Wednesday contained the latest version of the Sober worm, according to latest statistics from a UK antivirus company.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
Sober worm now 4 percent of all email


May 4, 2005 - 15:01 EST

One in every 22 emails circulating the Internet on Wednesday contained the latest version of the Sober worm, according to latest statistics from a UK antivirus company.

Spam of course was still 95%, and legitimate email the other 1%.

 

[EyeMWing]

What worm? /me opens his mailboxes, sees 11ty billion spam, no attachments.

I don't even have a virus scanner

 

[EvilYoda]

awwww, no one's made a joke about sober.N, sober.O and sober.S...naws?

 

[vi edit]

Make the bad virus stop!!!!

My poor hotmail account is getting destroyed. I've probably had over 1000 hits since Monday. I have absolutely no idea where my hotmail address got picked from. I wonder if some spammers got hit and this thing harvested the bulk email lists they purchase to send crap out to thousands of addresses.