W32.Sober.X@mm

Symantec has issued a medium high level risk assessment for W32.Sober.X@mm: A mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to spread and lowers security settings in Windows. It sends itself as an email attachment to addresses gathered from the compromised computer. The email may be in either English or German.

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

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