Germans Say They Stopped Sober Worm
German security experts claim to have stopped a new variant of the Sober virus that reared its ugly head earlier this month. Sober.Q propagated right-wing hate messages in German and English.
Analysts, however, are somewhat skeptical that this is the end.
Sober is a mass mailing worm spread through a .zip file attached to the e-mail. Once the attachment is opened, the worm uses its own e-mail engine to send itself to addresses harvested from the infected computer. "If we're lucky, German security experts stopped the virus by working with Internet service providers to take down Web sites which had code required for the virus to spread," Basex CEO and chief analyst Jonathan Spira told TechNewsWorld.
"Unfortunately, the programmer may have other tricks up his sleeve, so IT managers should not let down their guard or even take the time to breathe a sigh of relief."
