Nyxem Worm Starts Nixing Files
Come February 3rd, owners of Nyxem-infected Windows machines will be in for a rude shock. On that day, the bug is programmed to overwrite several common file types.
But today, the team at computer security vendor F-Secure is alerting the community that reports of the bug’s dangerous payload are trickling in. Users with incorrect time settings are already seeing their Office files, PDFs, e-mail archives and compressed folders getting corrupted.