{"id":547330,"date":"2005-11-22T23:45:11","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T23:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547330-sober-surges-in-sa.html"},"modified":"2005-11-22T23:45:11","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T23:45:11","slug":"sober-surges-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547330-sober-surges-in-sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Sober surges in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">There has been a resurgence of the W32. Sober.X virus in SA. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Brett Myroff, CEO of local Sophos distributor Netxactics, confirms local PC users noted dramatic increases in the number of e-mails carrying the virus this morning. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>&quot;Internet service providers have also noted the sudden increase, which started last night,&quot; says Myroff. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;However, the outbreak appears to be localised. There have been no reports of a similar upsurge in Australia, Singapore or the UK.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Whether a similar upsurge will occur in the US will only be seen later today, he says, as US office workers log on to their PCs. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The virus arrives in an attachment to e-mails that appear to come from post@fbi.gov, mail@fbi.gov or office@cia.gov, among others, with the subject lines including &quot;you visit illegal Web sites&quot;, &quot;Your IP was logged&quot;, &quot;Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie&quot; or &quot;Your Password&quot;. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Myroff says it is unusual for a mass outbreak to begin in SA. However, he says the threat to companies is limited, since patches for Sober variants have been available for some time. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"2\">INet-Bridge<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The W32. Sober.X virus has re-emerged in SA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}