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| Thread ID: 98549 | 2009-03-28 21:18:00 | Make Sure Your PC Is Secure On April 1st | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
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| 760307 | 2009-03-30 09:14:00 | Thanks for the information. Avast popped up on my screen other night with a message about April 1st, I just saw it when it disappeared, so never got to click on it. Fully protected, but it's still good to be on the alert. |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 760308 | 2009-04-07 19:47:00 | So did anything happen? no? wow!! |
porkster (6331) | ||
| 760309 | 2009-04-07 20:27:00 | April fools joke. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 760310 | 2009-04-08 07:49:00 | Just like an over-hyped movie : delivers a lot less than it promises..... | andrew93 (249) | ||
| 760311 | 2009-04-09 04:17:00 | Conficker wakes up news.cnet.com |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 760312 | 2009-04-09 07:12:00 | As mentioned on that page, here (www.confickerworkinggroup.org) is a quick test for conficker infection. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 760313 | 2009-04-09 13:03:00 | countermeasures.trendmicro.eu | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 760314 | 2009-04-09 18:08:00 | This worm-thing isn't dead yet . It hasn't really delivered a payload of anything significant and the "experts" are waiting to pounce on it when it hits the fan . However I keep seeing that if you can get to the manual-version of Windows Updates (usually you'll find that option if you hit the "WINDOWS KEY" with the little M$ flag on it), and you actually get to the M$ Updates site, then you don't have the worm . Just letting the normal/everyday updates happen are not enough proof of running safely . Just getting to what one thinks is their personal anti-program update site is not a good indicator since many of them are spoofed anyway . We have a lot of spoofed McAfee and Norton screens in the US that non-savant people actually believe are their protection update sites . UPDATE | @ 2½ hours old: Conflicker 2 . 0? The threat is back with a P2P makeover The Wily worm uses P2P for new instructions; other clues link it to Waledec and the Storm worm 4/9/2009 10:48:00 AM (New York time) By: Jeremy Kirk Security researchers say a worm that has infected millions of computers worldwide has been reprogrammed to strengthen its defenses while also trying to attack more machines . Conficker, which takes advantage of a vulnerability in Microsoft's software, has infected at least 3 million PCs and possibly as many as 12 million, making it into a huge botnet and one of the most severe computer security problems in recent years . Botnets can be used to send spam and attack other Web sites, but they need to be able to receive new instructions . Conficker can do this two ways: it can either try to visit a Web site and pick up instructions or it can receive a file over its custom-built encrypted P2P (Peer-to-Peer) network . Over the last day or so, researchers with Websense and Trend Micro said some PCs infected with Conficker received a binary file over P-to-P . Conficker's controllers have been hampered by efforts of the security community to get directions via a Web site, so they are now using the P2P function, said Rik Ferguson, senior security advisor for the vendor Trend Micro . The new binary tells Conficker to start scanning for other computers that haven't patched the Microsoft vulnerability, Ferguson said . A previous update turned that capability off, which hinted that Conficker's controllers maybe thought the botnet had grown too large . But now, "it certainly indicates they [Conficker's authors] are seeking to control more machines," Ferguson said . The new update also tells Conficker to contact MySpace . com, MSN . com, Ebay . com, CNN . com and AOL . com apparently to confirm that the infected machine is connected to the Internet, Ferguson said . It also blocks infected PCs from visiting some Web sites . Previous Conficker versions wouldn't let people browse to the Web sites of security companies . In another twist, the binary appears to be programmed to stop running on May 3, which will shut off the new functions, he said . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 760315 | 2009-04-09 20:04:00 | The website could have been slashdotted or brought down by Conficker. www.confickerworkinggroup.org |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 760316 | 2009-04-09 22:06:00 | I've just received never-seen-before identical spam messages that link to imagebukket.com from two friends on MSN. Anyone? | Renmoo (66) | ||
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