CNET apparently believes that “hate messages” and “right wing messages” are exactly the same: Sober.Q spreads hate messages in German, English. (Hat tip: Peg.)

A new variant of the Sober virus appeared over the weekend, spreading right-wing messages in German and English.

Security companies are warning that they received hundreds of thousands of e-mails generated by Sober.Q in its first 24 hours.

Sober is usually a mass-mailing worm that sends a copy of itself to e-mail addresses stored on an infected computer’s hard drive. However, during the same week that Germany and Europe celebrated the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, the latest variant’s sole purpose seemed to be to distribute hate mail.