A piece of computer mal-ware caused thousands of computers in Europe and Asia to crash over the weekend, and many more were infected as they powered up Monday morning.
Theron McChesney, a business intelligence specialist with SDN Communications in Sioux Falls, says the virus has been known in the I.T. world…..

McChesney says there are some common sense protections that computer users can take….

McChesney says while computers operating with Windows software were targeted, Microsoft had taken action against the virus months ago……

McChesney says computers running Windows XP were especially vulnerable to the virus. He suggests that users back up their systems on a regular basis to avoid issues like this.