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FBI issues Sober notice over Windows worm

 
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:02 pm    Post subject: FBI issues Sober notice over Windows worm
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FYI...

- http://www.theregister.com/2005/02/24/sober_worm_fbi_warning/
24th February 2005
"Virus writers are attempting to scare surfers into opening malicious code with a message posing as an FBI notice that they have visited an "illegal website". Recipients are invited to open a "questionnaire", which is really the latest Windows worm Sober-K. To add authenticity infected emails come from a faked @fbi.gov address. The tactic, which recycles a trick first used over a year ago, prompted the FBI to issue a notice this week warning users to be wary of the ruse. "These e-mails did not come from the FBI. Recipients of this or similar solicitations should know that the FBI does not engage in the practice of sending unsolicited e-mails to the public in this manner," it said.

The FBI said it is investigating the source of the Sober-K worm..."
- http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel05/022205.htm

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 9:38 pm    Post subject:
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What are these people thinking...spoofing the FBI?


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:19 pm    Post subject:
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Heh! You can spoof anyone OJ, it is ridiculously easy. Getting away with it is another matter entirely, for very long at least.


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