Experts warn of imminent Conficker attack. Security experts have uncovered new Conficker activity which could indicate that the hackers behind the worm are finally gearing up for an assault. Researchers at Trend Micro discovered a new variant of Downad/Conficker last night, called Worm_Downad.E, which is spreading over the peer-to-peer network of infected PCs created by the previous version.
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View 4 Replies View Relatedi rather talk one on one in seconds like AIM so plz if u do email me athews032@yahoo.com with you AIM name and we can talk
View 4 Replies View RelatedI see the MVP's attack us vista bashers that simply tell the truth, while at
the same time, they are silent about Frank. Does this mean they approve of him? And if so, do they think like them? Does an idiot who supports vista deserve acceptance, while vista bashers who provide information to this newsgroup about how bad vista is deserve only name calling and rejection?
I want an answer from the MVP's. Their silence only means they are Franks buddies, in other worlds you can behave like an ars, call people names, create noise and do everything a big fat troll does, but the MVPs don't care as long as he praises Vishhhttttaaa.
i was recently attacked by TrojanDownloader:Win32/Zlob.gen!CI. I managed to get rid of it by downloading and running spyware detector and i think the virus/spyware has gone. My computer has been running strangly ever since 25/10/2008.
when i boot up and have logged in several programs which used to start up fine are now glitchy. My ASrockOC tuner comes on screen but when i click on the minimise or X to close the application nothing happens - same with the spyware detector software that opens at startup, until i open the task manager - as soon as i do this i can minimise and close the programs and then the computer seems to work ok.
The computer has also frozen on several occassion when i try to access certain files and i have had to shut down by holding the power button as there is no response............
I know the title doesn't really describe it. I mean, it is like ghosts moving my icons every time i start up. I re-arrange them just the way i want them. When i start my computer up next time, it is always the icons in the same place that skip, and move up a row. I mean, i have two rows of icons on my desktop. exactly. The two icons on the third row up from the bottom always move to the top of the third row. I dont get it. WTF?
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Security experts say Conficker.C (also called Downadup) presents a serious threat. Infected machines -- said to number from 3 million to 10 million globally, depending on estimates -- could be activated for data destruction and theft or espionage, spam relays or denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. While a "doomsday scenario" on April 1 seems unlikely, many security professionals regard Conficker.C as the malware fruit of a disciplined criminal operation out to make money off it.
More here: Conficker on April 1st: Eve of destruction or big joke? - Network World
Just when you might have thought it was safe to start using USB flash drives at work again, the third, and by all accounts, most fiendish version of the Conficker worm that's infected millions of PCs already is set to attack on April 1st, Ars Technica reports. Conficker.C's designed to hide itself even more thoroughly than its older siblings Conficker.A and Conficker.B, using tricks such as:
•Inserting itself into as many as five Windows-related folders such as System, Movie Maker, Internet Explorer, and others (under a random name, of course)
•Creating access control entries and locking the file(s)
•Registers dummy services using a "one (name) from column A, one from column B, and two from column C" method
To find out what happens when Conficker.C strikes, join us after the jump.
Conficker.C's payload makes it harder than ever to recover from being infected:
•Deactivates Windows Security Center notifications
•Prevents restart in Safe Mode
•Prevents Windows Defender from running at system startup
•Deletes all system restore points
•Disables various error-reporting and security services
•Terminates over twenty security-related processes
•Blocks DNS queries
•Blocks access to security and antivirus websites
•And, to top it all off, Conficker.C can choose from a list of 500 domains to contact out of a pool of 50,000 (way up from Conficker.B's 32 out of 250).
Link:This is No Joke: Conficker.C to Strike on April Fools' Day | Maximum PC
Removal Tool: How to use the Downadup removal tools - BDTools.net
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I can't say much else, as I don't know much else, though I read about this on another Forum I belong to. I have all my Updates in place as always, ran MS Malware Removal Tool, Ran complete system Scan, my PC turned up clean of
Conflicker A and B as well as C, but then C has not been released as yet.
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I do know MS has a bounty out on the individual responsible, $250,000 BUCKS!!
That should give you guys an Idea of how SERIOUS this THREAT is!!
I am not sure about the removal tool either, but that's the only one I found.
Thus far.
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.
View 9 Replies View Related"BitDefender has released what it claims is the first vaccination tool to remove the notorious Conficker virus that infected some 9 million Windows machines in about three months.The worm, also known as Downadup, exploits a bug in the Windows Server service used by Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIf computer is infected with this worm, Customer may not experience any symptoms, or you may experience any of the following symptoms: Account lockout policies are being tripped. Automatic Updates, Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), Windows Defender, and Error Reporting Services are disabled. Domain controllers respond slowly to client requests. The network is congested. Various security-related Web sites cannot be accessed.............
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