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Blackworm hits 80,000 computers

New Delhi: As many as 80,000 computer systems in India and about a million across the world have been estimated to have been hit on Friday by the mass mailing worm Nymex that wrecks computers using the Windows operating system.

``The virus with aliases such as Blackmal, MyWife, Kamasutra, Grew and its variants has infected 80,000 systems in India,'' officials here said. They said the virus, which would strike on the third of every month, had done all the damage it could have done by noon. The worm infects systems using Windows operating systems and can corrupt all documents with the file formats like .dmp,:Ddoc,:E.md:CPTIS-.MD:K

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