German spam? Beware the Sober worm

[supernova]

Got to work this morning, fired up the trusty workstation, and Voila, I had a very nice collection of German and Russion spam. No kidding.

A coworker just sent me this:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/pcworld/20050516/tc_pcworld/120846

E-mail users perplexed by the barrage of German-language spam waiting in their inboxes Monday morning can point the finger of blame at the latest version of the Sober mass mailing worm which began rapidly spreading over the weekend.

Sober.q uses both German and English-language messages to direct recipients to Web sites with right-wing German nationalistic content, according to an advisory from e-mail security company MX Logic. One of the URLs points to the Web site of the right-wing German NPD party, it says.

Great! That's all I need: Spam from the Third Reich! :eyes: :banghead:

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Well, answers WillPitt's question at least

[Hugin]

2. There was a thread about this yesterday...

It's still going on, eh?

[supernova]

5. Yep, but I just found out about it at work

It doesn't find my home email.

[On the Road]

3. Dammit! I Got That Email Last night

and visited the website. Couldn't figure out what it was all about. Now I'll have to update virus definitions and run a scan this evening.

[lady lib]

4. Damn German efficiency -

we're getting tons of them.

[hippiechick]

6. oh shit.

It got me at work. I get/send email auf deutsch every now and then so thought perhaps i'd just been spammed ... didn't know it was a virus.

:scared:

[supernova]

7. Me too

but I don't usually send german emails.

My work address is rather old and it has been around a lot, so it attracts a lot of flotsam.

[lady lib]

8. More info

http://direland.typepad.com/direland/

[Telly Savalas]

9. Drunk worms will get you into trouble much more frequently than sober ones