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Just reported on CNN is details about this latest Nyxem/MyWife variant has a
destructive payload that overwrites all of your DOC/XLS/PPT/ZIP/RAR/PDF/MDB
files on the 3rd day of the month (this Friday). According to F-Secure "This
is nasty, as this is done on all mounted drives, ie. any drive that has a
drive letter. So it might affect your USB thumb drives, external hard drives
and network drives. All versions of Windows are affected. Also, if you're
taking daily automatic backups you might end up backing up the corrupted
files over good files."

The number of machines that have been infected by this worm is over 300,000.
F-Secure has a weblog of reported incidents at
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-012006.html#00000797


Mike Grant
Bytware, Inc.
http://www.bytware.com


-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 1:06 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Bad viruses?


qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> My first guess... maybe not a virus, but probably spam. I've seen
> quite a few recently that have the spam message in an embedded image
> rather than in any kind of text. The MIME encoding could be the
> image.

Probably a virus ... I extracted it and used winzip to open  ...
contained a screen saver.

david


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