We have received a lot of questions about origins of the recent Sober-related spam messages. Sober.p downloaded and activated Sober.q during last weekend. This new variant of Sober is the one sending out right-wing propaganda.

Sober.q also drops a file called Spammer.Readme. It contains this text:

  http://i-newswire.com/pr19707.html
  http://www.ebcvg.com/press.php?id=965
 
  Ich bin immer noch kein Spammer!
  Aber sollte vielleicht einer werden :)
 
  In diesem Sinne

This is basically a message to Anti-virus industry claiming that "I'm not a spammer, although I might become a one!".