Comments on: New Sober Worm Progeny Spews German Hate Spam

By: codeman38

codeman38 — Mon, 23 May 2005 21:24:59 +0000

I’m getting particularly annoyed by this one because, like all Sober worms before it, it spoofs the sender address. Thus, I’ve been getting bounces from a variety of addresses for this German stuff that I never sent out (and that I totally disagree with, but that’s another point entirely)…

By: Pamela

Pamela — Tue, 17 May 2005 16:05:25 +0000

I also got about 5 or 6 emails with German sexual ads. I used a free online translator to see what the email said. There was no attachment with the email. Some of the emails spoofed well known companies, such as Williams-Sonoma, and a couple of bank/insurance websites. I sent a copy of the email with the full headers to the spoofed companies, and Williams-Sonoma replied to me and said they had received over 900 such emails in one hour and were working on the problem. I don’t get those kind of German language emails anymore so it looks like it’s been fixed by Symantec and other companies.

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 17 May 2005 01:26:16 +0000

I am really upset about this. Stupid nazis are spamming me? LAME. My inbox has recieved zero spam before this stuff, and now I get a lot. 14 today, and I’m sure there will be more as the virus spreads. Thankfully Kaspersky Labs has updated, and hopefully Synmantec and all the others will follow by the end of the night. I think everyone interested in this virus should check out this thread on DSL Reports, where there is some more good info on how people are being effected by this. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/63586