A friendly reminder
February 3rd is the payload date for the CME 24 virus. It’s also known as the Nyxem-E , Blackmal, MyWife, Kama Sutra, and the Grew virus.
I wrote a little about this on the previous posting, and linked to how to fix it.
The rule of thumb is, if you get an attachment in your email, you should be very wary about opening it. If it’s from someone you know, it’s a good practice to know that they’re sending you something. If it’s from someone you don’t know, well, lets take a wild guess about whether you should open it or not…um, that’s a NO in case you’re not so good at wild guessing.
Some of these virus payloads exploit everyday programs as well. This one I believe is targeting MS Office suite applications. This should be a warning…don’t only concern yourself with keeping your anti-virus and operating system (OS) up to date…you should also try and keep the applications up to date as well.
Also, make sure to back up any information you want to save, be it work or personal. Looking more at the payload for this CME 24 virus, and it looks as if it is meant to delete your MS Office and Acrobat files. Sorry for the mis-step above. Back it up to a medium that cannot be deleted by any activity, including a virus. What I mean is burn it to disc if you can’t or won’t try to fix the virus problem.
Ahh, this post is very poorly written. It’s Monday, that’s my excuse. I just don’t feel like going back over it and fixing it…
