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Nyxem Virus Alert
By Barry Jenkins | Published 02/3/2006 | Broadband Security | Rating:
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Another new member of the team. Barry owns his own 'broadband for businesses' consultancy company, and has plenty of rich experience to share with us! Go Barry!! 

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Nasty Nyxem!!

There is a new bad-boy in town, and it's name is Nyxem. Firms around the world preparing their defences for this nasty computer virus that is about to plague the technological world. Once infected, the Nyxem virus uses it's host to spread to other computers, and tries to delete word documents and excel spreadsheets, plus other file types.

Currently, it is believed that the virus is thriving on more than 300,000 different computers world wide, and it's probably going to get much worse.

Most companies are hopefully going to be well protected against this new threat, but home users will probably be more affected. Maybe you are a student, a writer, or small business... whoever you are... BACK UP YOUR WORK NOW.

Nyxem File Targets:

  • DMP - Oracle files
  • DOC - Word document
  • MDB - Microsoft Access
  • MDE - Microsoft Access/Office
  • PDF - Adobe Acrobat
  • PPS - PowerPoint slideshow
  • PPT - PowerPoint
  • PSD - Photoshop
  • RAR - Compressed archive
  • XLS - Excel spreadsheet
  • ZIP - Compressed file

How to Protect Your Computer

The answer is simple, and free. We recommend that you go and download and install what we find to be the best virus protection out there, and that's a program called avast! AntiVirus.

You can download avast from their website, http://www.avast.com

 Backup your files and install some protection today before it's too late!!

 



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