Neo-Nazi Spam
This is a new twist to hate online, neo-nazi spam. Apparently, there's new computer virus called Sober.q that spreads neo-nazi hate messages via email from infected computers. According to this source:
The new virus is the 16th variant of the Sober virus family, which was born in Germany and was first spotted in October 2003. While previous versions infected through email attachments, the new version uses a Web site to update computers infected with the earlier Sober.p variant and infect new computers.
The subject lines of the email messages range from ‘60 Years of Freedom: Who’s Celebrating?’, ‘Honorable Action’ and ‘Dresden Bombing Is To Be Regretted Enormously’. Some messages expressed concerns about Mafia groups and the increase in the number of foreigners going to German schools, while others drew attention to the issues related to Germany’s large Turkish migrant population. Yet others provided links to the Web site of National Democratic Party, Germany’s right wing nationalist party.
The spam emails come around the 60th anniversary of the conclusion of the Second World War. Alfred Huger of Symantec Corp said that Sober.q has generated ‘tens of millions’ of spam emails since each infected computer is sending around 10,000 spams an hour.
Fortunately, it looks like this is virus can be handled by the usual virus-protection software -- would that there was virus-protection software to protect against white supremacy. Doesn't work that way, though.
The new virus is the 16th variant of the Sober virus family, which was born in Germany and was first spotted in October 2003. While previous versions infected through email attachments, the new version uses a Web site to update computers infected with the earlier Sober.p variant and infect new computers.
The subject lines of the email messages range from ‘60 Years of Freedom: Who’s Celebrating?’, ‘Honorable Action’ and ‘Dresden Bombing Is To Be Regretted Enormously’. Some messages expressed concerns about Mafia groups and the increase in the number of foreigners going to German schools, while others drew attention to the issues related to Germany’s large Turkish migrant population. Yet others provided links to the Web site of National Democratic Party, Germany’s right wing nationalist party.
The spam emails come around the 60th anniversary of the conclusion of the Second World War. Alfred Huger of Symantec Corp said that Sober.q has generated ‘tens of millions’ of spam emails since each infected computer is sending around 10,000 spams an hour.
Fortunately, it looks like this is virus can be handled by the usual virus-protection software -- would that there was virus-protection software to protect against white supremacy. Doesn't work that way, though.
posted by Jessie Daniels at
8:07 PM
