Hi Guys, Robert broke the code on this to the best of our knowledge. We're not sending any viruses to you, and I certainly don't send attachments (other than that funky thing Outlook attaches to my mail). Don't open anything that appears to be from us other than volunteering instructions. I may resort to putting that into the body of emails as well. Best, Marissa -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of robert tweedy Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 2:21 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] ot possibility for last week with the strange emails Sober worm hits new heights Published: May 9, 2005, 8:54 AM PDT By Dan Ilett Special to CNET News.com The Sober.P worm is circulating the Internet in greater quantities than ever, accoring to antivirus company Sophos. Sophos says the mass-mailing worm accounted for 5.4 percent of all e-mail the company saw over the weekend and 84 percent of virus activity. That represents an increase compared with Friday , when Sophos said the worm accounted for 4.65 percent of all e-mail and 77 percent of virus activity. "The strange thing is that we're actually seeing more reports than ever," said Graham Cluley , senior technology consultant at Sophos. "It's increased, and it's even worse than last week. We don't know how many people are infected, but those infected are just spewing these e-mails out." Cluley said the second most prevalent e-mail threat, the Netsky.P virus, accounted for 0.3 percent of all such threats, and the Zafi.D worm, the third most common, accounted for just 0.08 percent. "Those have been big viruses but have been dwarfed by the Sober worm," he said. Last week, Sophos said the worm turned off Symantec's antivirus protection and Microsoft's Windows XP firewall on infected machines. Sober.P--which security companies have variously tagged as Sober.N, Sober.O and Sober.S--travels as an attachment in e-mails written in English and German . One of the most widely reported e-mails contains an alluring message stating that the recipient has won free tickets to the 2006 World Cup in Germany, but many other types have also been spotted. Once opened, the virus sends itself to e-mail addresses harvested from the newly infected machine. Dan Ilett of ZDNet UK reported from London.