| Protect Your Computer from Latest Virus | | | | 1. Upgrade your antivirus software. If you |
| | | | don't have an antivirus software installed |
| A deadly new virus under the name of W32 | | | | and you don't feel like buying them. These |
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| is set to strike on the 3rd day of every | | | | get for free. |
| month half an hour after the infected | | | | |
| computer boots up. The damage caused by this | | | | AntiVir Personal Edition Classic 6.32 ( |
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| user opens the infected attached file it gets | | | | |
| into the system and start delivering itself | | | | 2. Scan your computer for possible malware |
| to all the available email addresses residing | | | | regularly. A great free tool that scans your |
| in the infected computer. Once activated it | | | | computer remotely for viruses and eliminates |
| overwrites all DOC, XLS, MDB, MDE, PPT, PPS, | | | | them you can find at |
| ZIP, RAR, PDF, PSD and DMP files by replacing | | | | |
| their contents with the data string: DATA | | | | 3. Get a firewall and install it. A great |
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| drives will suffer. This means your flash | | | | from |
| cards, network drives, external drives or any | | | | |
| drive which gets identified by an alphabet. | | | | 4. Regularly get patches for your version of |
| This virus is also known as "CME-24," | | | | Windows and update. |
| "BlackWorm," "Mywife.E" and "Kama Sutra" and | | | | |
| seems even capable of disabling out-of-date | | | | 5. Use email filters similar to Eprompter. It |
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| computers are believed to be infected by this | | | | or suspicious looking mail, which might |
| worm mainly in India, Peru, Turkey and Italy, | | | | contain viruses. Get it free from |
| where people are less prone to safeguard | | | | |
| their computers with up-to-date antivirus | | | | If you take these precautions, your chances |
| programs. What should you do to protect your | | | | of getting infected will be reduced |
| computer from this and other malware? | | | | drastically. |
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