hi ive a new email address

[QUALTHWAR]

department@fbi.com. you visit illegal websites
admin@aol.com. your new password
etc, etc, etc….

How many people are falling for this worm? W32.Sober.X@mm seems to be fooling a crapload of people, and I imagine many are new PC users.

 

[oosyxxx]

its on my roommate's pc, and it's friggin invincible!

 

[QUALTHWAR]

you should read about all the things it does when it infects. crazy!

 

[Cat Fuzz]

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sober.x@mm.html

 

[oosyxxx]

hmm, i tried that on his pc and apparently his problem lies elsewhere. thanks for the link tho

 

[Rukee]

I`ve seen some that will rename themselves with every fix attempt, even making it through a reformat. Only writing zero`s to the whole drive gets rid of it.

 

[QUALTHWAR]

i think you have to delete and create a partition