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W32.Sober.O@mm - Mass Mailing Worm
Topic Started: May 3 2005, 01:19 PM (61 Views)
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Thought I would pass this on as it hit our network today


W32.Sober.O@mm mass mailing worm was elevated to a Catagory 3 threat level on 5/2/05 by Symantec Security response. Catagory 3 is a threat type characterized either as highly wild (but reasonably harmless and containable) or potentially dangerous (and uncontainable) if released into the wild.
Wild: High
or Damage: High and Distribution: High

Additional information regarding the virus characteristics can be read below and/or by going to: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcen...sober.o@mm.html

Virus characteristics
The email may be in either English or German, and has the following characteristics:
Subject:
One of the following:

Re:Your Password Re:Registration Confirmation Re:Your email was blocked Re:mailing error Re: [blank]

Message:
One of the following:ok ok ok,,,,, here is itAccount and Password Information are attached!
Visit: http:/ /www.[random domain]This is an automatically generated E-Mail Delivery Status Notification.
Mail-Header, Mail-Body and Error Description are attached

Appends one of the following randomly to the bottom of the message:
Attachment-Scanner: Status OK
AntiVirus: No Virus found Server-AntiVirus: No Virus (Clean) http:/ / www.[random domain]

Attachment:
One of the following:our_secret.zip mail_info.zip error-mail_info.zip account_info.zip account_info-text.zip
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