I have not opened ANY emails lately. My computer was being slow, and not logging of of my Windows XP user, so I decided to run HouseCall. HouseCall removed Sober.U. This is the third case of Sober I've had in the last 3-4 months. Am I some type of target for these? Does it like(Maybe Hate is a better word) me?

Actually, i bet you are not deleting it properly!

Not only do these worms, viruses and trojans live within your system files, they also live within System Restore. If System Restore is not disabled before attempting to remove infections, they will automatically return when you reboot.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sober@mm.removal.tool.html

Symantic has a tool especially to get rid of Sober at the above link.

1. Disable System Restore.
2. Read the instructions on the Symantic site.
3. Download the tool to your desktop.
4. Execute the downloaded tool.
5. Reboot.
6. Execute the downloaded tool again.
7. Turn System Restore back on if you are finally clean.

What are you running for AV software? Every decent AV package has been guarding against Sober since October of 03.

Let me guess, you don't have an AV package, you are using one of those free online scans whenever you think you might have a problem?!?
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The internet is no longer a toy, it's a COMBAT ZONE!

Last time I had to delete it, I went in System Restore off, booted in Safe Mode, and manually deleted it. I ran the Symantec Tool, but it didn't even know it was there.

''Let me guess, you don't have an AV package, you are using one of those free online scans whenever you think you might have a problem?!?''

Nope. I'm running eTrust EZ AV. I looked at my Real-Time log, and it says it has repeatively blocked Sober.N.

http://smallbiz.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sober.n@mm!dr.html

So now it's sober.n, at first it was sober.u

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The internet is no longer a toy, it's a COMBAT ZONE!

Sober.U is what Trend Micro deleted.
Sober.N is what EZ keeps blocking.
And the tool did -not- help.

are u running any p2p programs?

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