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W32.Sober.Q@mm (Symantec.com)

W32.Sober.Q@mm (Symantec.com)

Discovered on: October 05, 2005
Last Updated on: October 07, 2005 12:02:57 PM

W32.Sober.Q@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to spread. It sends itself as an email attachment to addresses gathered from the compromised computer. The email may be in either English or German.

It has been reported that it may arrive as one of the following files and that inside the ZIP archive is a file named PW_Klass.Pic.packed-bitmap.exe:

 - KlassenFoto.zip
 - pword_change.zip

Also Known As: CME-151, Sober.Y [Panda Software], W32/Sober.r@MM [McAfee], WORM_SOBER.AC [Trend Micro]
Type: Worm
Infection Length: Varies
Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

 

More information on Symantec Security Response site:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sober.q@mm.html

Source: Symantec Corporation
www.symantec.com

2005-10-07 14:47

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