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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.