We may have ourselves a bit of a problem, globally I mean. Nowadays we have very powerful virus-scanners and security on our computers, however there is a fresh wave of viruses still popping out at us every single day, and now that there is over 130,000 viruses, Trojan’s, worms and all the rest of them out there, a lot of people cannot wait for Windows Vista to come out, because from the start, Microsoft have said that it will be able to protect itself against most things.

On February 3rd, a virus which has been dubbed BlackWorm, will activate itself on any infected machine and delete many important files off your system at minimum. It will target DOC, XLS, MDE, MDB, PPT, PPS, RAR, PDF, PSD, DMP, ZIP – basically Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and ZIP files.

The way it has spread, is by sending an email attachment and fooling the user into opening it, thus releasing the virus. 300,000 computers if not more have been said to already have the virus infected, if not released already. The best thing to do, is to make sure that you are fully up to date with your virus checkers, and if not, then visit one of the virus scanners below.

Virus scanners:
Windows Live Safety Center
Trend Micro HouseCall
Kaspersky Online Virus Scanner
McAfee FreeScan

Useful links
‘BlackWorm may have already hit’
BlackWorm virus information – click here.