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Notwithstanding the specific use being put to this Sober-Q virus, I'm quite impressed with the ingenuity of the folks who decided to turn their virus into a message machine. [Ed. I've chosen to use "message" here because "branding-building" would have been a little too glib and it's synonym, "propaganda," is in the eye of the beholder.] Technewsworld has the story here: Experts Find Spam Virus Advocating Far-Right Thoughts. Quick snip:
The well-traveled Sober virus has a new variant that links to German language Web sites boasting far-right racialism, IT security experts warned on Monday.Posted by Grayson at May 19, 2005 07:26 AMThe newly found Sober-Q virus has been apparently turned into a propaganda machine by authors, according to F-Secure , an IT security firm based in Finland.