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Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Sober worm's back: Don't click!

A new version of a particularly nasty worm is back, with the mission of harvesting as many email addresses as possible, ZDNET UK reports. The creators of Sober.M want to sell our addresses to spammers. Tell your kids not to bother opening any email with the subject: "I've_got your EMail on my_account!" and definitely not to click on an attachment in it that's supposed to have copies of your email in it. The attachment is the worm, of course, and "when opened, the attachment scans files on the infected computer to harvest email addresses that enable the worm to spread," according to TechWorld.com. The other thing to do: Make sure your anti-virus software is up to date. McAfee, Symantec, etc. reportedly all have this one covered.

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