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Clock Ticking for Nyxem Virus

Posted by Hemos on from the cue-jeopardy-theme-song dept.

DoddyUK writes "The BBC is reporting that the countdown has begun for the Nyxem virus. On February 3rd, common documents such as MS Word, Excel or Powerpoint will be overwritten on infected machines. Over 300,000 machines have been infected thus far, the main method of infection being the promise of porn in unsolicited emails."

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  1. May I be the first to say: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ouch.

  2. Seems fair enough to me by Threni · · Score: 4, Funny

    Darwin's virus, you could call it. As long as it disables their internet access too, I don't see the problem.

  3. Re:Who out there stilll doesn't get it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes. Hopefully this will stop them from continuing to be idiots.

  4. Re:The motive? by HaydnH · · Score: 2, Funny

    "On the plus side, lazy grad students can now say, "The virus ate my thesis" :P"

    So Holmes, you're saying the culprit is a CS grad student with a project due in on the 4th of February?

    Elementary, my dear Watson...

    --
    Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams
  5. Unfortunately... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They breed.

  6. Hurry, before it's too late! by ticklejw · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now's a great time for porn-enjoying Windows users to switch to Linux! All the fun of free Internet porn with none of the viral infection.

    --
    "Software is like sex; it's better when it's free." -Linus Torvalds
    1. Re:Hurry, before it's too late! by Lysdexic2 · · Score: 2, Funny

      So, let me get this straight. I used to just have to worry about viral infections with real sex. Now I have to worry about infections with Internet sex as well? Where's it going to stop. Thinking about sex makes your palm pilot explode?