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Sober.P Worm Accounts for 5% of all Email Traffic

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-lotta-bits dept.

destuxor writes "The grave insecurity of the day is the Sober.P worm which is currently pushing nearly 5% of all email traffic at the moment. Unlike previous worms, Sober can disable the Windows Firewall and Symantec Antivirus. Interestingly, patched machines are not vulnerable to the exploits used by this worm. What are we going to have to do to convince "ordinary users" to visit WindowsUpdate once in a while?" update percentage corrected.

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  1. Reading the article? by r2q2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I read that the article refrences that it only comprises 4.65 percent of all email traffic? Where does this article say 25 percent???

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  2. RTFA, Taco by Draoi · · Score: 5, Informative
    The Sober.P worm is still spreading fast and made up almost 5 percent of all e-mail traffic

    From the first line ... 5%, not 25%. Big difference ....

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