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In message <[email protected]>, Elijah Savage writes: > >Can anyone confirm this I got this from a security partner of ours. > >The source code for the Sober.Z worm, which began infecting computers >worldwide on Nov. 21, indicates that the author(s) are planning to >launch another attack on Thursday, Jan. 5 and Friday 6, to coincide with >the 87th anniversary of the founding of the Nazi Party. On these dates, >PCs infected with Sober.Z will be instructed to connect to numerous >servers to download malicious code that will likely send out German and >English language email hate messages. Uknown Company (my edit)encourages >network administrators to protect themselves by blocking domains >believed to host the malicious code. These domains are: >http://people.freenet.de/ >http://scifi.pages.at/ >http://home.pages.at/ >http://free.pages.at/ >http://home.arcor.de/ > > > >-- >http://www.digitalrage.org/ >The Information Technology News Center > Also see http://www.lurhq.com/soberdates.html --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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