The Troj/Sober-Q Trojan horse is being used to send out German nationalistic spam from PCs previously infected by the Sober-N worm.

It appears that the Sober-N worm which spread very widely, accounting for nearly 80% of reports in early May, was used to infect as many PCs as possible by posing as tickets for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. The many compromised PCs are now being used to send out masses of spam.

Spam sent by the Trojan horse from infected PCs uses various subject lines including: 'Dresden Bombing Is To Be Regretted Enormously', 'Armenian Genocide Plagues Ankara 90 Years On', 'Dresden 1945' and 'Turkish Tabloid Enrages Germany with Nazi Comparisons'.