Did you get an email from the FBI recently ??

sarettah · 11-23-2005

Probably not, even though it might have looked like it.

New puter virus going around, variant of sober.x

One of our account service people opened something with it in it yesterday and managed to get us onto spamhaus's list of blocked servers

http://www.techworld.com/networking/...fm?NewsID=4847

Quote:

The FBI has put out an official warning about a new variant of the Sober worm spreading through e-mails that purport to come from the US investigation agency.

The FBI advised computer users that the agency never sends unsolicited e-mails and that they should not open the attachments, which contains Sober.x - a variant that has now be given a "high risk" rating by security experts Secunia.

The scam e-mail tells recipients that their Internet use has been monitored by the FBI and that they have accessed illegal Web sites, according to the FBI. The e-mails appear to come from e-mail addresses including mail@fbi.gov, post@fbi.gov and admin@fbi.gov, then direct recipients to open an attachment and answer questions.