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[TcM]

Thanks for the TIP! I will pay attention!

[AfTriX]

Thanks for the information.
I will make necessary attention as precaution.

[xtraze]

mysticalone said:

"The worm, named Nyxem.E, was discovered on January 20. It spreads by convincing users to open an executable attachment in their e-mail, tempting them with subject lines such as "Arab sex DSC-00465.jpg," "Miss Lebanon 2006," or "School girl fantasies gone bad." The executable, when run, checks to see if there are any common anti-virus programs running, and if so disables them. It inserts itself into the Windows registry in the standard places such as Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run so that it will run on startup, then scans the users' hard drive for any e-mail addresses it can find to send itself off to the next victim. It also attempts to spread via network shares.

The payload, which is set to execute on the third day of every month and so will first deploy on February 3, does not render the user's computer inoperative, but instead destroys that user's data. All Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint, Acrobat, Photoshop, and some other files including zipped archives are deleted and replaced with the text string "DATA Error [47 0F 94 93 F4 K5]." This could result in some embarrassingly short business presentations scheduled for the beginning of next month"

More info at:

http://arstechnica.c...60123-6028.html

That is really annoying it is,
I can't understand why people waste their time to create such viruses, maybe the antivirus companies pay those hackers or anything. Or maybe they're doing it for fun ??

[TcM]

Well these are people with no life, they just want to shop what they are capable of and they like to hear on websites that their virus, it's like because they have the power and knowledge they think that they can make these stupid things to get famous all over the net! duh

[AfTriX]

And I guess they are Very Talented Jobless fellows, because creating a virus also requires a lot of knowledge.

[DevilsCharm]

It's so easy to avoid these things, just don't open exec files from people you don't know... Also, you said it was discovered January 20th, but you posted January 16th. What's up with that?

[AfTriX]

I think mysticalone would have got that information from somewhere. and would notice the date thing as we all did at the beginning.