Tuesday, November 22, 2005
FBI is not sending you viruses. Other people are.
Yesterday, November 21st the FBI released a public alert regarding an email with a potentially dangerous attachment with this text (or similar) as the email content.
Dear Sir/Madam,Attached was not a list of question, but rather a copy of Sober-U, a variant of the Sober email worm. So the FBI may not be after you, but the worm viruses are.
we have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites.
Important:
Please answer our questions!
The list of questions are attached.
Yours faithfully,
Steven Allison
*** Federal Bureau of Investigation -FBI-
*** 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 3220
*** Washington, DC 20535
*** phone: (202) 324-3000
