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Conficker Virus Begins To Attack PCs
Just saw this in the news a few minutes ago. Might be of interest to some.
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/200904...curity_virus_2 Ron |
As a preface, we get dozens of infected systems a week in our shop for repair... we have not seen a large number of Conficker, but there have been some.
Scarier, to me, is the 3 systems we got this week that have some rootkit variant that does not clean up with anything that we've found yet; we have to pull the hard drive and do a manual repair in a mule system. Anyway, if you feel you have Conficker (remember a simple test is that you cannot reach web pages on Symantec or McAfee sites, but can see all others).. ... here is a credible free detect and repair tool from Sophos: http://www.sophos.com/support/knowle...cle/54447.html Download requires a simple free registration (that gets you their newsletter); you can remove yourself from the mailing list after the first one, if you like. Conficker and variants are especially "interesting" since they can spread via USB memory sticks... a relatively new twist. If you see a file on your stick called "autorun.inf or autoplay.inf" with a recent creation date and it is not a U3 equipped stick...be concerned. And...remember, you can be protected against Conficker simply by installing the Latest Windows Updates and having an updated AV program installed. |
Just what I need.....another warning about sticking my memory stick in places it doesn't belong...
hope they nail these buggers sometime soon. Maybe pull their finger nails out and slice off their finger prints to start with, or cut off the end joint of each finger so they have stumps to type with. Is that too vicious? :3DSMILE: ken |
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