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Director of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis ’98 identified the “Mytob” and “Sober.Q” viruses as “the main thing that we’ve been seeing over the last couple of days.?...
According to Davis, who is also a Crimson editor, Sober.Q is a successor of an earlier worm called Sober.P, which “went out a few weeks ago.” Davis said machines worldwide that had previously been infected with Sober.P “received an instruction?...
Mytob is a worm that installs a “root kit” or “back door” on infected computers, giving those behind the virus “root”, or full access, to those machines, Davis said. He added that such ?...
“This is something that’s happening Internet-wide,” Davis said, citing websites such as CNET’s News.com, which reported the spread of Sober.Q.
Davis said that a virus whose mission is to spread a political message rather than merely propagate itself is “a little bit unusual.” He added that Harvard’s FAS Computer Services (HASCS) still recommends that network users never click on the links...