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To make matters worse, the mail provides genuine contact numbers of FBI or CIA. As a result, the Internet Crime Complaint Center of FBI in West Virginia received over 4,000 complaints about the virus on Monday. On an average, the ICC gets 18,000 complaints per month, according to FBI spokeswoman Cathy Milhoan.

Alfred A. Huger, senior director of engineering at Symantec Corp., which sells Norton AntiVirus software, described the malicious content as a “mass-mailer worm” which on entering a system has a very high possibility of accessing your personal data.

Over 73,000 consumer computers have reported detection since the worm was discovered on Monday, discloses Craig Schmugar, a virus-research manager at McAfee Inc.'s Avert Labs.

Further, the British e-mail security company MessageLabs Ltd. said it has blocked close to 2.7 million copies of Sober and its variants revealing that the size of the attack points out to a major trouble, without doubt one of the most dangerous in the past few months.

Most security firms rated it as a “medium-risk" worm since it was not as extensive as something like the MyDoom that infected computers early last year.

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