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MICROSOFT MAY NOT PAY OUT SASSER REWARD
MULTILINGUAL SOBER-G WORM SPREADING IN THE WILD
GERMAN POLICE FEARED AGOBOT SUSPECT WOULD FLEE COUNTRY
AGOBOT THREAT FORCES SINGAPORE SCHOOLS TO DISCONNECT FROM NET
DABBER WORM FEEDS ON SASSER-INFECTED COMPUTERS
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MICROSOFT MAY NOT PAY OUT SASSER REWARD
According to reports in the German media, the person who
gave Microsoft valuable information which lead to the arrest
of Sven Jaschan, the suspected author of the Sasser worm,
may themselves be under suspicion.

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/sassertip.html


MULTILINGUAL SOBER-G WORM SPREADING IN THE WILD
The Sober-G worm is a mass mailing worm which sends itself
to addresses harvested from an infected computer, using
either German or English phrases. Sophos anti-virus
products at the desktop and email gateway can protect you.

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/soberg.html
http://www.sophos.com/products/


GERMAN POLICE FEARED AGOBOT SUSPECT WOULD FLEE COUNTRY
Police who arrested a 21-year-old man in Germany in connection
with the malicious computer program Agobot feared that the
suspect might flee the country.

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/agobotabscond.html


AGOBOT THREAT FORCES SINGAPORE SCHOOLS TO DISCONNECT FROM NET
The Singapore government has confirmed that all 360 of its schools
were forced to temporarily disconnect from the internet in a bid
to contain a version of the Agobot malicious program.

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/singschools.html


DABBER WORM FEEDS ON SASSER-INFECTED COMPUTERS
The W32/Dabber-A worm searches for computers that have already
been infected by variants of the Sasser worm. Are your computers
protected against this and other threats?

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/dabber.html
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