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Top Virus Threat

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This question was answered on July 1, 2005. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.

W32.Sober.O@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself as an email attachment to addresses gathered from the compromised computer. It uses its own SMTP engine to spread. The email may be in either English or German.

The Sober worm gets a security rating of 3/5 for a high distribution, medium damage, and high presence on the net.

For more information on this threat and removal instructions, click <a href="http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sober.o@mm.html" target="_">here</a>.

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Posted by Chad of Data Doctors on July 1, 2005

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