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There’s a new virus floating around out there thats already infected 9 Million Machines. I had a heads up earlier in the day and Microsoft released a patch for this on Tuesday.

I was harmlessly surfing the web and went to a site burid in the SERP’s on page 24. I quite often look at pages buried i the SERP’s when I am researching keywords. As soon as I opened that page 4 count them 4 viciously flashing pop-ups started going wild on my screen.

I didn’t click a thing but launched task manager and immediately shut down the browser. I than  ran a virus scan using my up to date McAfee Security Suite. It found nothing so I than used the awesome online scan provided by Trend Micro which also came up clean. phew… Tricky stuff and a vicious virus.

The Trend Micro “Housecall” online scan is something I highly recommend you use in addition to your regular virus scan software. It’s saved my bacon more than once. Thanks for the heads up earlier today Thankfully I wasn’t unprepared. Note to self. Don’t click on any part of these pop-ups.

Microsoft issued a security update Tuesday to deal with the so-called “Downadup” or “Conficker” virus, which appears to be a new version of a bug that popped up in October.

Microsoft said the virus is spreading by gaining access to one computer and then guessing at passwords of other users in the same network: “If the password is weak, it may succeed.”

I’m finished making a new set of backups for all my fills and I have made a complete image backup using this awesome freeto use Backup software called DriveImageXML. DriveImageXML makes an image file backup of your entire drive or selected files ad folders and it uses an XML file which means in case of a crash you won’t have to be digging around for money to reinstall your image with some propriety file format from a piece of software.

Moral of the story, scan your computer with more than 1 piece of software and you can never have enough backups.  Spend some time soon doing both!

All The Best

Paul

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