Sober.P worm updates to Sober.Q
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Birmingham, UK
Anti-virus firm Kaspersky has just discovered a new Sober worm variant. The Sober.Q worm which is download by computers that are infected with the Sober.P worm. A few hours ago we reported Sober.P suddenly stopped spreading on Tuesday because the virus creator altered the code of the worm.
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Source: DVhardwareSober.Q includes a German message in which the author refers to some online articles which called him a spammer. He says he is not a spammer, but might turn into one.
Last Monday Sober.P accounted for 40 percent of all virus activity on the internet according to F-Secure, but rival Sophos reports that Sober.P was responsible for 84 percent of all virus traffic on Monday.
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