Security Web Digest: Sober Worm Crawling The Net ... and More.
Publication: eWeek
Publication Date: 28-OCT-03
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A new virus called Sober arrives as an email in English or German with the payload coming as an attachment. It uses a wide variety of headers, promising that the attachment contains everything from pornography to an antivirus patch. Once activated the malware installs itself as 'drv.exe', 'similare.exe' or 'systemchk.exe'. It then mails...
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