Over the last week, "Blackworm" infected more then 700,000 systems as measured using a counter web site used by the worm to track itself. This worm is different and more serious then other worms for a number of reasons. In particular, it will overwrite a user's files on February 3rd.
The following file types will be overwritten by the virus: DOC, XLS, MDE, MDB, PPT, PPS, RAR, PDF, PSD, DMP, ZIP. The files are overwritten with an error message( 'DATA Error [47 0F 94 93 F4 K5]').
Update your Anti-Virus software today!
Our favorite security guy and infrequent poster here at IHMC, Brad, says this anti-virus software is free and good. However it doesn't constantly run looking for viruses, you have to manually run it once a day.
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