New Windows virus hits computers
Sober travels with its own e-mail engine so it can send itself to any addresses it harvests from computers it has managed to infect..
Windows 2000, 95, 98, Me, NT, Server 2003, and XP are all vulnerable to infection by the Sober virus.
Be wary of unsolicited or unexpected e-mail messages.
Threat arrives in an email message with one of the following attachment names:
* account_info.zip
* autoemail-text.zip
* LOL.zip
* Fifa_Info-Text.zip
* mail_info.zip
* okTicket-info.zip
* our_secret.zip
* _PassWort-Info.zip
Inside the ZIP archive is a file named winzipped-text_data.txt .pif
Like many Sober variants, this variant uses several different email messages randomly, in either English or German depending on the version of Windows. One such German message states that the recipient has won tickets to the worldcup:
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