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sober virus.
deary65
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Every anti-virus and anti-spam company has had the same message for the last week or so: make sure your systems are patched and updated before January 5, 2006. I know this must make me look like a broken record, but the Sober virus is scheduled to send out another round of emails on either the 5th or the 6th, and you don't want to know how bad it could possibly be.
Sober seems to have originated in Germany, and what makes the latest version -- which showed up a little over a month ago -- so nasty is that while it "sleeps" for a while before it actually starts sending out its requests to download the next version, it also has the IP addresses it's sending those requests to encrypted. Since there are millions of computers out there that aren't protected very well, we can all expect a lot of email starting on January 5 (the 12th Day of Christmas, by the way).
from:newsletter@experts-exchange.com
Sober seems to have originated in Germany, and what makes the latest version -- which showed up a little over a month ago -- so nasty is that while it "sleeps" for a while before it actually starts sending out its requests to download the next version, it also has the IP addresses it's sending those requests to encrypted. Since there are millions of computers out there that aren't protected very well, we can all expect a lot of email starting on January 5 (the 12th Day of Christmas, by the way).
from:newsletter@experts-exchange.com
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My computer acts drunk half the time, might be a good thing for it.
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