Sober.P - Beware of Free World Cup 2006 Tickets

Virus writers continue to use social engineering techiques to trick folks into opening attachments.  Sober.P has spread more successfully than most recent viruses, as it can tempt sports fans into thinking they have won something free.  Usually in email, there are no “free lunches” as most of these types of emails are like telemarketing calls -- there's always a catch ... and in this case you'll catch a very advanced virus that is difficult to remove from Windows.   

Sober.P - Beware of Free World Cup 2006 Tickets
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Sober.p, which has caused outbreaks in various western European countries, owes some of its success to social engineering. It arrives as an attachment to infected messages which use a range of subject headers, messages and attachment names in both English and German. Some of the messages appear to promise tickets to the World Cup in 2006 - and who wouldn't want World Cup tickets?

Infected emails pose as ticket confirmation messages from organisers of the football World Cup, due to be held in Germany next year. The worm composes messages with subject lines such as "WM-Ticket-Auslosung" and "Your Password" with attachments such as Fifa_Info-Text.zip containing a .pif payload file. Sober-P only infects Windows machines