p2p news / p2pnet: The latest mass-mailing horror is due to strike live tomorrow when millions of computers around may become infected to turn the F-Secure map virtually red.

If you’re worried, F-Secure has a disinfectant free tool available for free. Go here for a download.

Meanwhile, F-Secure says it’s been working with RCN, “the company running the counter site that is used by the Nyxem.E worm” and, “Last night we got the web access statistics, listing all the IP addresses that have accessed the Nyxem counter.”

After filtering out the addresses of bots that had been hammering the F-Secure counter, the company used its WORLDMAP technology to map the addresses of machines it believes will run into trouble unless they’re disinfected before tomorrow.

Nyxem.E will begin to overwrite files half an hour after infected machines start on the 3rd of the month, adds F-Secure.

Also See:
mass-mailing horror – Nyxem.E goes live Feb 3, February 1, 2006

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