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Conficker Worm Targets Microsoft Windows Systems
added March 29, 2009 at 08:18 pm | updated March 30, 2009 at 03:06 pm
US-CERT is aware of public reports indicating a widespread infection of the Conficker/Downadup worm, which can infect a Microsoft Windows system from a thumb drive, a network share, or directly across a corporate network, if the network servers are not patched with the MS08-067 patch from Microsoft.
Home users can apply a simple test for the presence of a Conficker/Downadup infection on their home computers. The presence of a Conficker/Downadup infection may be detected if a user is unable to surf to their security solution website or if they are unable to connect to the websites, by downloading detection/removal tools available free from those sites:
http://www.symantec.com/norton/theme.jsp?themeid=conficker_worm&inid=us_ghp_link_conficker_worm
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/worms/conficker.mspx
http://www.mcafee.com
If a user is unable to reach any of these websites, it may indicate a Conficker/Downadup infection. The most recent variant of Conficker/Downadup interferes with queries for these sites, preventing a user from visiting them. If a Conficker/Downadup infection is suspected, the system or computer should be removed from the network or unplugged from the Internet - in the case for home users.
Instructions, support and more information on how to manually remove a Conficker/Downadup infection from a system have been published by major security vendors. Please see below for a few of those sites. Each of these vendors offers free tools that can verify the presence of a Conficker/Downadup infection and remove the worm:
Symantec:
http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2009-011316-0247-99
Microsoft:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962007
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/worms/conficker.mspx
Microsoft PC Safety hotline at 1-866-PCSAFETY, for assistance.
US-CERT encourages users to prevent a Conficker/Downadup infection by ensuring all systems have the MS08-067 patch (see http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx), disabling AutoRun functionality (see http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-020A.html), and maintaining up-to-date anti-virus software.
Last minute tech ping for conficker warning.
So, this isn’t a April Fools joke?
How is Sydney fairing Up its April 1 there I think
Thanks.
One word: iMac
ping for info......
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Thanks for the Heads Up & the link.
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Yeah works great, as long as you are not running a 64bit operating system. Thanks for the heads up though.
I think I’m gonna say hell with it and take my chances. If ya don’t see me here tomorrow, you’ll know why.
Here is a link to a fix released today if you don’t want to bother with MS:
http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/global/removal_tool/threat_writeups/FixDwndp.exe
Can I load it on friends computers and let them restore it as needed?
You are misleading people here.
Steady State does not protect a machine against worms, nor does it protect data.
Its purpose it to prevent changes through the user interface and rollback changes to the disk since a checkpoint.
Your data could have been irretrievably destroyed or damaged by a worm or virus. Steady State does not do the baseline backup!
You need to have a separate backup of your data — as always.
Steady State is fine as long as you also have a firewall, AV, backups, etc.
It does not do that much by itself.
Bookmark.
You said, Download it, click to install, open it, and select “User Restrictions”, and (if you do nothing else), select “Protect the Hard Disk”.
After that, anything and everything that is installed will be deleted after a reboot. it’s just that simple.
What do you mean “anything and everything that is installed will be deleted after a reboot...”? Can you clarify this?
thanks.