Another Sober variant found

NEW DELHI: MicroWorld has reported the discovery of Troj/Sober-Q, a mass mailing spamming internet Trojan for the Windows platform. Some of the spam sent by this Trojan takes the shape of emails from respectable German news outlets, such as Spiegel. It sports articles such as "Necessasity of Health Reforms", "asylum seekers receive first class private supply while medical supply for Germans abolished"; "Dentists- enormous content increases expense of the contribution payers" etc.






According to the press release, it affects the Windows operating system and is also know by aliases such as Email-Worm.Win32.Sober.q and W32/Sober.q@MM.