Worm Facts
"Sober.B" or "Sober.Q"
Sober.B replicates itself through e-mail attachments. Once infected, a computer's e-mail account and address book is used to send the worm to other computers.
After the initial infection of Sober.B, Sober.Q was used to distribute anti German and Turkish messages in both English and German.
Hollinet's e-mail filters will remove most versions of these worms, but some new variants will get through our filters before they have been updated to look for the new profile.
As a precaution, never open any attachment unless it is something that you are expecting from a known sender. Even then, be wary of any ".exe" or ".scr" attachments as they are almost always programs in disguise.
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