PC users have been urged to scan their computers before 3 February to avoid falling victim to a destructive virus.
On that date the Nyxem virus is set to delete Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Acrobat files on infected machines.
Nyxem is thought to have caught out many people by promising porn to those who open the attachments on e-mail messages carrying the virus.
Anti-virus companies have stopped lots of copies, suggesting it had infected a large number of computers.
Posted - 01/02/2006 : 14:30
The Nyxem Virus has been accumulating victims with the latest email scam
On the 3rd February 2006 the Nyxem-E Windows virus is set to delete Microsoft Office Programmes and Acrobat files on infected machines. The virus gets into computers through email attachments promising adult materials, with headings such as:
• Fw: Funny :)
• Fw: Picturs
• *Hot Movie*
As well as attacking Word, Powerpoint, Excel and PDF files this virus can also prevent the mouse and keyboard from working. PC users have been urged to scan their computers before the 3rd to prevent this destructive virus causing damage.
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Posted - 01/02/2006 : 15:17
A little bird tells me the Nyxem warning is another one of those hoax emails which do the rounds every now and again, but of course it wouldn't do any harm to check your PC carefully in case the little bird had received a hoax about the warning being a hoax, if you know what I mean.
Posted - 01/02/2006 : 15:37
That's what I thought H but I looked it up on Macaffee and it's a genuine low risk worm that has been about in one form or another for about 4 years now. Anyone who has an updated virus scanner like Macaffee Viruscan is fully protected. It's the cheapskates who are to tight/idle to get protection that suffer. Serves 'em right I say.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk