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Sober Interferes with Hotmail And MSN Win32/Sober.Z@mm	By Adrian Stanciu, Sci-Tech News Editor 5th of December 2005, 16:20 GMT Adjust text size:


Just in case you were wondering what Sober's latest adventures in cyberspace were, let us tell you that end of last week the pesky worm managed to interfere with all Microsoft-based-webmail bringing great difficulties in receiving mails to Hotmail and MSN users. The Win32/Sober.Z@mm variant targeted Hotmail and MSN email servers with an "unusually high mail load", which lead to important delays in delivering email messages to Microsoft webmail users. According to Microsoft spokespeople, several Internet service providers such as Comcast may be having problems directing e-mail to Hotmail and MSN servers. Microsoft publicly apologized for this inconvenience and stated that it was working closely with all Internet service providers in order to solve this situation. Several reports inform about some Comcast subscribers who received error messages when sending e-mail to a Hotmail or MSN account. These users have received an error message which said their email was not received. Still, Microsoft claims that in spite of such error warnings that all e-mails, while some may be delayed, are eventually getting through. Microsoft made another interesting statement, according to which the problem began earlier this week but there still is no indication of a timetable for when it might be fixed.

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