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The Help Desk => Computer Related Discussions & Questions => Topic started by: Chris on March 30, 2009, 03:34:21 AM

Title: Conficker C
Post by: Chris on March 30, 2009, 03:34:21 AM: Quote
Conficker C is scary as hell. Conficker C represents a best-of-breed specimen of malware, with its swiss-army-knife-from-hell approach to digging in, staying hidden, and making your life generally miserable. Telltale symptoms: you can't view such web sites as Microsoft.com, symantec.com, avast.com, or any other computer security-related sites the worm authors have thought to include in the blacklist; you can't run any of the superb Sysinternals utilities, or many other utilities, because they get killed within a second of starting them up; your antiviral software is impotent. But none of that is the point of the worm.

On April Fool's Day of this year, the roughly 10 million conficker-infected Windows XP-based PCs (mostly in China, Brazil, and Russia) will phone home, but nobody knows to what purpose. The "best" possible outcome is that the bad guys are merely stealing the identities of 10 million people.

It's hard to say what the worst case is, but the metaphor "internet warfare" is, apparently, not overblown.

http://www.metafilter.com/80204/The-boss-level-of-internet-worms

Windoze sent out an update/fix for this in October.
Title: Re: Conficker C
Post by: thundley4 on March 30, 2009, 06:27:12 AM: I've seen some articles saying that this could be the worst viral attack ever, but I'm hoping that the fear is being overblown.
Title: Re: Conficker C
Post by: asdf2231 on March 30, 2009, 04:54:13 PM: Here is a link to the De-Wormer tool. :)

http://www.bdtools.net:80/

My machines are all clean. I run Trend Micro Internet Security on all of them and it's pretty thourough.
Title: Re: Conficker C
Post by: Texacon on March 30, 2009, 06:15:16 PM: Quote from: asdf2231 on March 30, 2009, 04:54:13 PM
Here is a link to the De-Wormer tool. :)

http://www.bdtools.net:80/

My machines are all clean. I run Trend Micro Internet Security on all of them and it's pretty thourough.

Yeah, it just sux as a spell checker!

:lmao:

KC
Title: Re: Conficker C
Post by: Thor on April 14, 2009, 10:47:54 PM: Quote from: Texacon on March 30, 2009, 06:15:16 PM
Yeah, it just sux as a spell checker!

:lmao:

KC

Spelling Nazi !!!

:admin:
Title: Re: Conficker C
Post by: Texacon on April 15, 2009, 06:58:45 AM: Quote from: Thor on April 14, 2009, 10:47:54 PM
Spelling Nazi !!!

:admin:

LOL at least I didn't get another one for calling out spelling while spelling SUX!

KC
Title: Re: Conficker C
Post by: DixieBelle on April 15, 2009, 07:33:05 AM: Okay, the spell check joke gets a H5 :-)
Title: Re: Conficker C
Post by: MASHLover on May 03, 2009, 02:15:47 AM: Quote from: thundley4 on March 30, 2009, 06:27:12 AM
I've seen some articles saying that this could be the worst viral attack ever, but I'm hoping that the fear is being overblown.
Not overblown, it HAD the potential to kick ass if the it staff was not on the ball. I know of a tv station that got slammed by this thing,

heads are gonna roll over that for sure.

ps: I work for the parent company in an IT capacity so I get all the scoop :hammer: :lmao: :banghead:
Title: Re: Conficker C
Post by: thundley4 on May 03, 2009, 07:21:17 AM: Quote from: MASHLover on May 03, 2009, 02:15:47 AM
Not overblown, it HAD the potential to kick ass if the it staff was not on the ball. I know of a tv station that got slammed by this thing,

heads are gonna roll over that for sure.

ps: I work for the parent company in an IT capacity so I get all the scoop :hammer: :lmao: :banghead:

Apparently, conficker isn't gone yet. It's still mutating and infecting computers.