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New Email virus

Myantispyware team November 15, 2005 No Comment

Yesterday we got some messages about a possible new variant of the Sober virus to be released today. The F-Secure Weblog was one of the sources that posted a press release of the Bavarian Police warning about the new variant. And looks like they got it right…At least according Symantec (calling Sober.S) and F-Secure (calling Sober.V) and CA (calling it Sober.S).
According the first reports received , is is spreading with an email with something that looks like a zipped excel attachment. But, Symantec only says about a zipped one…so I imagine that could be alot of different extensions.
The subject and body may be in english or german. Like the following subjects:

Thanks for your registration. Hi, Ich bin's

Update: McAfee reports 3 different variants since yesterday (which may be today according your time zone…)
Sober.U
Sober.V
Sober.T

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Author: Myantispyware team

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