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Thinkpad (AXcess News) Washington - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said a new variant of the W32.Sober computer virus was being circulated over the Internet as an attachment in e-mail sent to users using an FBI email address. The FBI is warning anyone who receives an unsolicited e-mail from the FBI accusing them of visiting illegal websites not to click on the attachment.

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Microsoft TheFBI issued a warning tothe public to "avoid falling victim to an on-going mass e-mail scheme wherein computer users received unsolicited e-mails purportedly sent by the FBI."

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Laptop Computers These scam e-mails tell the recipients that their Internet use has been monitored by the FBI and that they have accessed illegal web sites. The e-mails then direct recipients to open an attachment and answer questions.

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Laptop Computer The FBI said "the e-mail appears to be sent from the e-mail addresses of mail @fbi.gov, post @fbi.gov and admin @fbi.gov."

Nov 23, 2005 Helsinki, November 23, Secure has been tracking the latest variant of the Sober worm and is now issuing a Radar Level 1 Alert on it. Secure' step alerting system. Several millions of infected emails have been seen by internet operators over the last hours. One of the reasons why this email worm seems to be so successful in spreading is that some of the messages it sends are fake warnings from FBI, CIA or from the German Bundeskriminalamt (BKA).

Desktop Computer The W32.Sober computer worm quickly spreads through computer users contacts foldersdelivering the virus to everyone intheir address book, making the worm's virus populate rapidly across the Internet.

Notebooks Norton antivirus provider, Symantec Corp. listed the computer worm w32.sober.X on Saturday. Both the FBI and CIA issued warnings to computer users Tuesday. Symantec said there are already several new variations of the mass mailing W32.Sober worm circulating on the Internet.

Lenovo W32.Sober.X@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to spread and lowers security settings. It sends itself as an email attachment to addresses gathered from the compromised computer. The email may be in either English or German.

Hard Drive TrendMicro reported that the W32.Sober worm was also spreading through Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, Belgium and Germany. The anti-virus software maker rated the W32.Sober worm a "medium" risk but also noted that the damage potential was "high."

Travelstar TrendMicro said, since its email propagation does not require any user intervention, affected users are often unaware that this worm is sending out email messages from their machines.

Gateway TM also stated that the message isn't necessarily from the FBI or CIA. Like other mass-mailers, this worm utilizes social engineering techniques, such as promises of celebrity pictures or alerts regarding alleged illicit behavior, in order to entice users into opening the attached worm copy on the email messages it sends.

Laptop Parts Similarly, one of the German e-mail messages spoofs Bundeskriminalamt, and threatens legal action against the user's alleged downloads of films, software, and MP3 files.

Software The Sober worm is also known as CME-681, WORM_SOBER.AG [Trend Micro], W32/Sober-{X, Z} [Sophos], Win32.Sober.W [Computer Associates], Sober.Y [F-Secure], W32/Sober@MM!M681 [McAfee], W32/Sober.AA@mm [Norman].

Hard Drives Systems being infected are Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003 andWindows XP.

Electronics The Sober worm overwrites the file luall.exe with a copy of itself so that the worm will run each time LiveUpdated is launched.

Canon This worm is also capable of terminating processes that contain certain strings. Moreover, it searches the process list of the affected system for mrt.exe, the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool process. If found, it terminates the said process thus making the system more vulnerable to malicious attacks.

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