| Protect Your Computer from Latest Virus | | | | programs. What should you do to protect your |
| A deadly new virus under the name of W32 | | | | computer from this and other malware? |
| Nyxem-D which spreads via email attached file is set | | | | 1. Upgrade your antivirus software. If you don't have |
| to strike on the 3rd day of every month half an hour | | | | an antivirus software installed and you don't feel like |
| after the infected computer boots up. The damage | | | | buying them. These two are excellent antivirus |
| caused by this virus could be extensive. If | | | | programs you can get for free. |
| unsuspecting user opens the infected attached file it | | | | AntiVir Personal Edition Classic 6.32 ( Alwil Software |
| gets into the system and start delivering itself to all | | | | Avast Home Edition 4.6 ( |
| the available email addresses residing in the infected | | | | 2. Scan your computer for possible malware regularly. |
| computer. Once activated it overwrites all DOC, XLS, | | | | A great free tool that scans your computer remotely |
| MDB, MDE, PPT, PPS, ZIP, RAR, PDF, PSD and DMP | | | | for viruses and eliminates them you can find at |
| files by replacing their contents with the data string: | | | | 3. Get a firewall and install it. A great free firewall that |
| DATA Error [47 0F 94 93 F4 K5]. This can create a | | | | you can download and install is Zonealarm. You can |
| big mess, as all integrated to the computer drives will | | | | download it from |
| suffer. This means your flash cards, network drives, | | | | 4. Regularly get patches for your version of |
| external drives or any drive which gets identified by | | | | Windows and update. |
| an alphabet. This virus is also known as "CME-24," | | | | 5. Use email filters similar to Eprompter. It gives you |
| "BlackWorm," "Mywife.E" and "Kama Sutra" and | | | | the ability to delete unwanted spam or suspicious |
| seems even capable of disabling out-of-date antivirus | | | | looking mail, which might contain viruses. Get it free |
| software. Over 300 thousand computers are believed | | | | from |
| to be infected by this worm mainly in India, Peru, | | | | If you take these precautions, your chances of |
| Turkey and Italy, where people are less prone to | | | | getting infected will be reduced drastically. |
| safeguard their computers with up-to-date antivirus | | | | |