I am running version 9 Suse Pro. I have been informed by a work mate that a piece of email I sent was identified to have the sober.32 worm. The sober.32 would not affect you if you were running Linux, it is . It may well be that your email address was a faked "sender" address that
On Monday 05 April 2004 13:01, Siobhan wrote: these sorts of viruses use to propagate - they go through an addressbook and pick 2 names/addresses out of it - one for the From: and one for the To: line :) http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sober.f%40mm.htm... If you go to http://www.symantec.com you can look up viruses to see what OSs they affect, and also what they do. From the above page: W32.Sober.F@mm is written in Microsoft Visual Basic and is packed with UPX. Also Known As: W32/Sober.f@MM [McAfee], Win32.Sober.F [Computer Associates], W32/Sober-F [Sophos], WORM_SOBER.F [Trend] Variants: W32.Sober.E@mm Type: Worm Infection Length: 42,496 bytes Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP Systems Not Affected: DOS, Linux, Macintosh, OS/2, UNIX Hope this helps, Jon