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| Sober virus affects onE in every 22 emails; careful what you open | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 7 2005, 01:06 PM (641 Views) | |
| AndrewF31 | May 7 2005, 01:06 PM Post #1 |
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Sober virus now infects one in 22 emails May 05 2005 by Dan Ilett http://software.silicon.com/malware/0,3800...39130136,00.htm One in every 22 emails circulating on the internet contains the latest version of the Sober worm, according to statistics from a UK antivirus company. Sophos claimed that the mass-mailing worm, which has been reported in 40 countries after first appearing on Monday, now accounts for 79 per cent of all viruses the company is seeing. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, said: "It's still very widespread. It appears to turn off Symantec's antivirus protection and the Windows XP firewall. It seems to do that to set up future attacks." He went on to say that the worm is likely to be preparing computers to distribute spam. "That's probably why it has become widespread so quickly," he said. "[Virus writers] used spam technology to send it out. Now it's just perpetuating." Sober.P - which security companies have variously tagged as Sober.N, Sober.O or Sober.S - travels as an attachment in emails written in English and German. One of the most widely reported email contains an alluring message stating that the recipient has won free tickets to the 2006 World Cup in Germany, but many other types have also been spotted. Once opened, the virus sends itself to email addresses harvested on the infected machine.. |
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| Deleted User | May 7 2005, 01:11 PM Post #2 |
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Thanks.  I've found a new and exciting way to help keep more secure. I put all my technologically inept friends on my blocked list and told them they'll have to call me to talk to me.  So far, it's working. Scan those attachments, folks. And disable HTML in emails if you can. |
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| Francis | May 7 2005, 01:17 PM Post #3 |
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Thanks for the info PhranK and Andrew, I'll try and make my email accounts more secure... 
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| Captain Kam | May 7 2005, 01:17 PM Post #4 |
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Gmail kicks ass Spam hits my spam folder, which I never view. Period. :E |
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| AndrewF31 | May 7 2005, 01:22 PM Post #5 |
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 I just noticed I forgot the "E" in one in the topic title. It's supposed to be "one in every 22 emails".If a mod could fix that. 
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| Francis | May 7 2005, 01:25 PM Post #6 |
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Ban him! What kind of email accounts do these virus' get sent to mostly? |
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| JoeC | May 7 2005, 01:26 PM Post #7 |
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Euch! IE tastes horrible!
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Heh, simple solution: don't use Symantec antivirus. Use Panda
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| Francis | May 7 2005, 01:29 PM Post #8 |
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I use AVG... First free one I found... :angel: This is leading onto another topic;(omgsemicolon!) which is the best free anti-virus software? |
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| ~Jalba | May 7 2005, 01:32 PM Post #9 |
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Yea, Thats what i have also, and so far its working for me greatly. Found over 5 viruses on my computer after updating the Virus Definitions. But Back in track, I use Outlook Express to check my email and well it actually downloads the email's to my computer so if a virus happens to be in those email's im downloading them to my computer. And im asking for it |
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| JoeC | May 7 2005, 01:35 PM Post #10 |
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Euch! IE tastes horrible!
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Yeah, I use Thunderbird. But reading thr article, it mentions that the virus is in an attachment, so unless you're either dumb or greedy, you should be fine 
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| Francis | May 7 2005, 01:36 PM Post #11 |
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*101 is worried...
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| Jory | May 7 2005, 01:46 PM Post #12 |
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Does norton count if you don't pay for it :angel: *Qj goes and reactivate the (lame) 'don't allow opening or saving of attachments that may contain dangerous codes' (of something, don't have Outlook Expres in english so just guessing) so that nobody can open attachments anymore. I use gmail anyway so I won't have a problem with that
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| Captain Kam | May 7 2005, 01:48 PM Post #13 |
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Rock on, Qj. I'm sure AVG updated about this :3 Too bad I don't have AVG Pro. =\ |
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| AndrewF31 | May 7 2005, 01:53 PM Post #14 |
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There's more about it if you click on the link. Has some related articles and one of them describes the Football email it comes with: http://software.silicon.com/malware/0,3800...39130034,00.htm |
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| Platyna | May 7 2005, 02:12 PM Post #15 |
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Not a my or any of my users problem. ;-) *Platyna hugs her Sendmail and Squid.  Anyway, as you pointed Qj, turning on "security" in Outlook is lame, what is the point of doing lame things? Even if HTML is disabled and those warnings are enabled a person that wants to spread a malicious program can use numerous security holes in Outlook itself (most of them MS refuses to fix since many years) to make it execute a scriptie or program without any warning. Use Opera or Sylpheed - beware, it has claws and bites. :smithster: Regards. |
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