CME-24 could cause you problems
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1 Feb 2006 | One CommentThe F-Secure blog is reporting that they’ve already received reports that it’s hit some users already. As the activation is based on the computer’s clock, if you’re clock’s not set correctly, then this could hit you anytime.
F-Secure have released a free tool to disinfect any machines that may be infected, this can be downloaded here. It’s recommended that if you’re not a 100% sure that you are not infected, then download the tool and run it.
When Blackworm/Nyxem.E activates it will overwrite all of the following file types:
DOC
XLS
PPT
ZIP
RAR
PDF
MDB
This will not only affect the drives in your PC, it will affect drives mounted on your machine, in lamen’s terms anything at all with a drive letter, network drives, USB drives, MP3 players, etc, etc.
[...] It looks like CME-24 was not a very big deal after all. We took an extra cautionary backup of the files that could have been infected. We also manually scanned the network for traces of the worm and none were found. We did find one occurance of the worm on our Exchange server, but NAV was able to stop it. All is well today. [...]
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