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Nyxem Virus Threat

Sunday 5 February 2006

The latest virus threat has so far proved less damaging than was expected, as people heeded warnings and cleaned up their computers, and updated their anti-virus software.

The potentially harmful Nyxem virus was programmed to begin deleting files from infected Windows PCs on 3 February.

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