Blackworm - First reports of damage with incorrect PC clock settings
Posted
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 2:58 PM
by
hwaldron
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-012006.html#00000797
QUOTE: When Nyxem activates, it will overwrite all of your DOC/XLS/PPT/ZIP/RAR/PDF/MDB files. This is nasty, as this is done on all mounted drives, ie. any drive that has a drive letter. So it might affect your USB thumb drives, external hard drives and network drives! Also, if you're taking daily automatic backups you might end up backing up the corrupted files over good files. The number of machines that have been hit by this worm is over 300,000. Many of those have been disinfected already, though. But thousands of computers will get their files overwritten on February 3rd - most of them in India, Turkey and Peru.