Virus Alert – Conficker Worm
Well there is another fast and up and coming virus on the world computer networks but it would seem that this virus could be a dud or so people thought thus the confusion with this worm. The work has other alias’s which include Downadup and Kido and as for the package that it delivers it would seem to be a rather disturbing one or common attacks you chose, but it disables the following services: Windows Automatic Update, Windows Security Center, Windows Defender, and Windows Error Reporting. However, that is part one, part two is that it connects to a server to download even more stuff to infect your computer with and so how is this done you may ask?
Well an article from compterworld.com states that it ” exploits a bug in the Windows Server service used by Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008″ and even though Microsoft did make an update for this little bug it would seem that not many people updated there computers to fix it. On top of that though Conficker uses random file extensions to make its attack and so the security team that is watching this worm says too do a full scan of everything and not a quick scan in order to find this worm if your computer is infected. As for the security updates Microsoft mentions that users need to install Security Update MS08-067 and as for various security software, none of the articles mention who has updated for this one but your best bet is to head over to the websites and see what they have for this worm.
Although the infection is small, 8-10 Million computers, rate of infection is pretty fast since it was at two million computers but it only took four days to reach the 8 million mark. So if you see that you have some Windows services disabled especially when you go to update your computer with this security patch, you might be infected but just make sure to keep your computers up to date to prevent your computer from getting infected.
SOURCES
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126205
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090116/tc_pcworld/confickerwormattackgettingworsehereshowtoprotectyourself
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090118/ap_on_hi_te/computer_virus
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