Secunia, which compiles virus descriptions from various vendors and assigns them an overall average risk, elevated the Sober.I (also known as Sober.J) worm to high risk at 11:37 PM last night. The upgrade comes after Panda Antivirus assigned a 4/4 risk. Other risks currently listed are F-Secure (2/3), Network Associates (4/7), Symantec (3/5), Trend Micro (2/3), Computer Associates (3/5), and Sophos (5/5). The good news is that this is mainly a “housekeeping” upgrade: different antivirus companies have different standards for ratings. A 4/7 at Network Associates is more or less equivilant to a 4/4 at Computer Associates. At this time, I still consider Sober.I a moderate threat, although it certainly is out there.
For now, until I receive information that spread is rising, I have removed the outbreak notification at the top of the page. The Secunia page can be found here.
Posted
Nov 24 2004, 03:28 PM
by
trafton