Spam and Sober-Z Virus
December 05, 05 by kenrichLately, the Internet has been hit with a ton of spam. The culprit is a new work that is delivered via e-mail called “Sober-Z”. You have probably seen the e-mail before which reads something like:
You’re activity has been monitored
Stop visiting illegal web sites.
And the e-mail is usually sent from fbi.gov or cia.gov. Sent along with this e-mail is an attachment containing the worm. When opened, it will use your entire address book to send out spam to other users on the internet. Because the spam is being sent out from computer users and not a centralized server, the virus is that much harder to defeat.
With any luck, users will update their computers or install the latest virus scanner to block proliferation of this virus. I created Microsoft Outlook rules to filter out all of the garbage in my Inbox. I reject any e-mail that doesn’t contain my address in the To: box and also any e-mail that contains one of my “spam keywords” if it wasn’t sent to me from someone in my distribution list.
