On April 1, the virus Conficker
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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Conficker The day has arrived. The virus has already begun its new phase of attack, but so far there have been no particular problems. Millions of people have already fallen victim to the worm and virus are now all ready for battle 
Today is
Conficker
. Whether we call Downadup, Kido or whatever, we will know only in 24 hours if the danger has deflated or Conficker less. So far we only know that the virus has started its activities infectious and that there are many who have been activated to limit their scope. The day will remain in full alert, to avoid misunderstandings.
The worm code is designed to hit a reported vulnerability and resolved with the patch from Microsoft MS08-067
,
Conficker.D
distributed on 23 October and was obviously ignored by too many users. Conficker numbers, in fact, are made immediately important, with millions of people affected and as many as 10 million people affected only by the third version of the worm. April 1 is the day on which the attack but rather the day when Conficker simply accelerates its rate of infections coming to deliver a greater number of domains for groped to accelerate its activities infectious. Today Conficker is in its fourth version
(Conficker.D
). The Microsoft TechNet blog in this regard indicates that "the worm can propagate a '
" does not have a patch MS08-067 (958644) ";' share has been opened for writing '
"has loads of places with weak passwords;
" with the Autorun feature enabled, is connected to removable devices (USB keys, external hard drives) previously infected;
"the worm uses the credentials of the user logged on the infected system to propagate groped for accessing the ADMIN $ share system that will infect the system: So, for example, if it infects a system that has logged a Domain Administrator, this system is able to infect all systems that are part of the same domain. This vehicle is one that probably justifies the increased impact of this infection in the enterprise than to end users. "
Increased Conficker activities should not, however, at least temporarily, lead to stability problems for some systems because
says Paul Ferguson of Trend Micro,
the project is not to prevent access to the Internet by users, but to continue expansion as possible through its network infected
Sophos, Trend Micro antivirus and many other houses have already prepared what is necessary to equip their antivirus all that useful for preventing infection
the project is not to prevent access to the Internet by users, but to continue expansion as possible through its network infected
. F-Secure indicates that at the time, the worm did not cause any problem, or at least anything different than previous days. In recent days, some researchers have even found
a small bug in the functioning of the worm, such that it has become easier in the identification of infected systems. The blockof domains for which it is expected the infection should also help slow down considerably the scope of the attack today. In all this there emerges the picture of an evolving situation, a chase between cops and robbers which for now seems to corroborate the former, but made it clear that the latter has potentially increasing capacity and increasingly sophisticated. McAfee,
Sophos, Trend Micro antivirus and many other houses have already prepared what is necessary to equip their antivirus all that useful for preventing infection
(a simple update will update the software for a total protection). Microsoft offers a few simple tips to avoid any danger: "As always, keep their systems up to date, use strong passwords, limit as far as the operations carried out with account with administrative privileges greatly reduce the risk of infection of our business systems." The Malicious Software Removal Tool and Windows Live OneCare safety scanner are available to verify the bud and stop any infection of its business systems and household items.
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