Sober still strong

Sober.p, the worm that stormed the internet earlier this week, so far has shown no signs of fading away, an anti-virus vendor said.

"It's had quite the impact," said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant with Sophos. "Although it's not on the level of a really major worm, like Sobig last year, Sober is the biggest we've seen so far this year."

The worm broke early this week and quickly gained steam in Western Europe before hitting American PCs. Within hours it dominated the malware charts by making up 70 percent or more of the malicious code traffic spotted by anti-virus monitoring stations.