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NEWS Two more viruses have been discovered attempting to bring chaos to computer users over the Christmas period. The virus known as Reeezak is the second in recent days to exploit the festive period and can delete the system directory on your PC and prevent your keyboard from working. It can also delete all your anti-virus software. It introduces itself with the line "Happy New Year", and the body text reads: "Hi I can't describe my feelings But all I can say is Happy New Year :) bye". The virus is executed on opening the file called Christmas.exe. Like Nimda it spreads in a variety of ways, using Outlook mailboxes as well as unprotected network shares. Another worm - spotted by anti-virus firm Sophos - attempts to change the victim's home page to a pornographic site called CoolSite. It then tries to reproduce by hi-jacking all emails in the sent items folder and re-sending them. Email anti-virus expert MessageLabs has recorded 60 instances of the worm in the last 24 hours, putting it into the current virus top ten. Victims will receive a mail with the subject line "Hi" and a message body reading: "Hi. I found cool site! ...It's really cool". The worm relies on victims clicking on the link to activate the worm.