Zombie PCs infected with the Sober-P worm are set to reactivate on Monday, 23 May. Sober-P posed as offers of a free ticket for next year's World Cup and set up backdoor access on compromised PCs, claiming thousands of victims since its first appearance earlier this month. These infected machines were later used to generate a German hate-mail spam outbreak this week. The sheer volume of this deluge illustrated the potential for further mischief. The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warned on Friday that the Sober P worm will become "active' again this Monday, and may launch another Trojan. Email security firm CipherTrust said that virus authors could reprogram this botnet to send out yet more spam, propagate secondary infections or launch a denial of service attack........... **************** � � � � � � � � � ***************************** Kiggundu Mukasa� � � � � � � � # Computer Network Consultancy### KYM-NET LTD. � � � � � � � � � # Intranets & Internet Solutions# Plot 80 Kanjokya Street P.O. Box 24284 Kampala, Uganda� � � � � � � Tel: � � +256 77 972255 �� � � � +256 71 221141 Fax: � � +256 31 262122 ***************************************************************** |
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