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Sober.X worm clogs inboxes. Virus sends e-mails that look like ones from feds

The Sober.X computer worm that began flooding inboxes last month masquerading as a threatening e-mail from federal investigators made a resurgence this week, with security experts now calling it the most prolific e-mail worm ever unleashed.

The junk traffic generated by Sober has bogged down e-mail systems at some of the nation’s largest Internet service providers. For several days last week, subscribers of Microsoft Corp.’s Hotmail and MSN e-mail services experienced long delays in receiving new messages as the company struggled to filter out Sober-generated traffic.

By Brian Krebs, The Washington Post

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