W32/Sober.p@MM Alert for Students and Purdue University Home Users:

Students and Purdue University Home Users: Beware a very clever e-mail message that tries to entice you to download a destructive worm. This new variant on the old Sober worm is spreading fast and uses an e-mail subject heading that offering free tickets to the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Either that or it comes with the subject line "Your Password" with the body of the text reading: Account and Password Information are attached! There's even a note saying that there was no virus found in the attached file. Don't believe it! If you download and execute the file, it will harvest e-mail addresses from your address book and then spam your friends, family, and business colleagues--and make it appear as if the message is from you.

For more information on this newest threat, please visit ITaP Networks and Security's Virus Alerts page located at: http://www.purdue.edu/securepurdue/news/. You can also download McAfee Antivirus Software to prevent this and other threats from our Software Download page located at: https://www.purdue.edu/securepurdue/download/.