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[Neon]

Early reports suggest damage has been light from the destructive Nyxem virus.
The Windows virus was set to start deleting popular file types on 3 February and was known to have infected more than 300,000 machines.

But computer security groups in nations where Nyxem infections were high said few users lost data because of the bug.

Experts speculated that the publicity prior to Nyxem's trigger date may have prompted people to clean up machines and prepare defences.

The virus 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

So back those up! Go to Search and type *. followed by the extension, for example *.doc

[Mr Bad Guy]

Thanks for the warning, I'll do dat. even though I have nothin 2 worry about coz i have a good anti virus software. I haven't seen a virus or a spyware since i 've installed it.

[Neon]

well get it up to date cos this isn't an old one, this is a new threat and it will look for exploits!