Worm disguises self as Microsoft patch

05:00 - Monday 8 March 2004 by Wolfgang Gruener
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: worm, disguises, self, as, microsoft, patch Category : Miscellaneous

Sober.D, discovered on Monday, is technically similar to its previous incarnation as Sober.C, where it used its own SMTP engine to send copies of itself to e-mail addresses found on infected systems. But the latest version displays fake Microsoft warnings and error messages.

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