Sober Z virus

Tue Jan 3 23:16:53 UTC 2006

Fergie wrote:
> See:
> 
> http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-122005.html#00000729
> 
> - ferg
> 
> 
> -- Elijah Savage <esavage at digitalrage.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Can anyone confirm this I got this from a security partner of ours.
> 
> The source code for the Sober.Z worm, which began infecting computers 
> worldwide on Nov. 21,  indicates that the author(s) are planning to 
> launch another attack on Thursday, Jan. 5 and Friday 6, to coincide with 
> the 87th anniversary of the founding of the Nazi Party.  On these dates, 
> PCs infected with Sober.Z will be instructed to connect to numerous 
> servers to download malicious code that will likely send out German and 
> English language email hate messages. Uknown Company (my edit)encourages 
> network administrators to protect themselves by blocking domains 
> believed to host the malicious code.  These domains are:
> http://people.freenet.de/
> http://scifi.pages.at/
> http://home.pages.at/
> http://free.pages.at/
> http://home.arcor.de/
> 
> 
> 
Thank you I always forget about f secure and they did not post as musch 
info on symantecs site or I missed it some how.

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