May. 16th 2005 - MicroWorld has reported the discovery of Troj/Sober-Q, which is a mass mailing spamming internet Trojan for the Windows platform.
Some of the spam emails sent by this Trojan takes to respectable German news outlets, such as Spiegel etc., as reported by MicroWorld, which contain articles on:
"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.
It affects Windows operating system and is also know by aliases such as Email-Worm.Win32.Sober.q , W32/Sober.q@MM
In order to protect yourself from this worm ensure that you have the very latest update of the eScan/MailScan software. MicroWorld provides Hourly Updates to its customer.
For further information on detection and removal of "Troj/Sober-Q" please visit the below mentioned link.
http://www.mwti.net/virusnews/virusalertd.asp?id610
Download the free MicroWorld Anti Virus Toolkit that detects viruses in system registry and running processes
Link 1 ftp://ftp.microworldsystems.com/download/tools/mwav.exe
Link 2 ftp://update.mailscan.info/download/tools/mwav.exe
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