Vista - Conficker worm gets an upgrade

Conficker worm gets an upgrade


The Conficker worm, which infected millions of PCs last month, has received an upgrade which makes it much more effective.
The new variant, dubbed Conficker B++, has been redesigned to get around attempts to shut it down.

Previous versions checked for software updates from a list of 250 randomly generated URLs. But security companies managed to reverse engineer the algorithm that generated the URLs and design a way to block the software from updating. The new variant now uses a new set of backdoors to update itself.


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Have heard about this worm. Looks like it might be very serious problem. But there is an manual removal guide for newest version of Conficker: Conficker.C description and removal instructions

LOL just removed this conficker from MRT !

It is a never ending fight with Trojans and viruses.

Hopefully carrying on doing what I'm doing will keep me safe, making sure my system is up to date with all critical patches, keeping my anti-virus program updated, make sure my firewall is always running, don't open dodgy emails.

Practise Safe Hex and don't go anywhere dodgy

I have a feeling this is what I had at the weekend on my comp as I posted in this thread: NSIS Error Writing Temporary File and other files not installing

I was reading about the virus and it disables stuff like Windows Defender and Event Viewer, and just before I formatted, I saw both of these were disabled. I know other viruses most likely do this, but there's a chance it could have been this.

That'll probably teach me to keep UAC off. It's certainly staying on for good now

Watched the News last night, KRON4 (SF, CA.) on the Tube, no not You Tube the TV.

Anyhow they said,



Conficker C, has infected 12,000,000 PC's so far.

That's 12 Million.


EEK!!
Went on to say yes, MS still has a $250,000 Bounty out on it's creator!!
Best prevention, pretty much what we've been doing, .
A) Make Sure your version of Windows is Completely up to Date!!
B) Be sure all Security Updates are done. (like MS Malicious Software removal tools etc. ) run them.
C) Run Anti Virus Software.
They suggested McAfee or Norton AntiVirus software, I'm just reporting what they said. Nothing more.
Kinda makes me want to go Back to McAfee Though I'm pretty sure all major Anti Virus players are on top of it.
My God, I hope so!!
Anyone in question visit here:: How to use the Downadup removal tools - BDTools.net (watch the vid at least)


Blue



BitDefender ran::

Just got an Update today from MS for MS Defender (April 2nd, 09) so that's a good sign, everything works fine!!

Conficker B++ or C? Hmmm....

It's like 1 in 4 PCs are infected by it in the world.

Hi Everlong,

Would hate to think that it's that many

that would make 250 000 000 which is a lot

The figures I've read state 12- 15 million mostly in 3rd world locations, I would suspect that you could double or triple that which makes 45 million or 4.5% which is still a scary number of machines in the Botnet.

Of course the real fear with modern malware is that due to the fact that it works it's payload silently is that something this side could do untold damage before it's actions are noted. Gone are the days where a virus infection put pink hearts onto your monitor - now they empty your bank account.

When the infection gets this large the thing is it could just take a few cents from each account it has gained access to and no one would actually notice but the authors still make millions

It's what one of the lecturers was talking about yesterday, so I don't know if it's correct.

Either way though, it is still a lot of computers and hopefully Microsoft/security companies will be able to keep it under control.