New PC Virus Attacks Photoshop and Microsoft Files

[Keith S. Walklet]

Heads up! New worm arrives as an attachment to emails.

The virus is set to trigger the third of every month. This virus, the Kama Sutra Worm (also known as Nyxem.E and Grew.A) destroys Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop files on internal and external storage devices. The first link is to an article about it. The second takes you to a site to download a patch.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2006-01-30-email-virus_x.htm

for more information as well as here:

http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/nyxem_e.shtml to download a removal utility.

[David Luttmann]

I presume when you say Photoshop files, that you mean .PSD. I haven't heard of a virus going after JPG & Tif.....and if they did, it could do it on Mac & Linux graphic files as well.

[Ken Lee]

Get a Mac. No problems with viruses to speak of. I don't even own anti-virus software. I'm a software engineer.

[Juergen Sattler]

Keith, thanks for the heads-up!

[John Kasaian]

Get an Omega D-2, they're about as virus proof as you can get! ;-)

[Emmanuel BIGLER]

Get another operating system for your PC. No problems with viruses to speak of on my PC (I'm on linux). I don't even own anti-virus software.
I'm not a software engineer. ;-);-)

[Paul Fitzgerald]

Hi there,

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[paulr]

film doesn't get viruses, only mold.