Conficker Apocalypse

Will the Conficker worm, expected to activate on April 1, set off viral destruction or be a dud?
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.
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More here: Conficker on April 1st: Eve of destruction or big joke? - Network World


What do people know about this? I have heard a lot about it, but don't know a lot about it.


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Quote: dk70 View Post I think it is made or sponsored by Microsoft so they can prove the point that as long as you use legit Windows and do updates you are safe. Also goes for busineses. Youre kidding right ?
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Its Possible.I think it is a great lesson,it would help make people more aware.:D
 

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wwoods said:
dk70 said:
I think it is made or sponsored by Microsoft so they can prove the point that as long as you use legit Windows and do updates you are safe. Also goes for busineses.
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Youre kidding right ?
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I guess but like the idea. But they dont need to prove that and popular tech sites will make sure point is ignored anyway, focus will be on invisible "threats" "virus", damn hackers...

Im looking forward to Microsoft making free AV this year, think that will improve situation somewhat. There are millions thinking pc/internet is like tv/gamebox so forget good advice, only way is force - or Microsoft pushing stuff down the throat :) AV will be optional of course but still, will increase awareness and probably take out some old dusty crappy bundle-AVs. May be even improve on current free options. Not sure it will do much about piracy though, doubtful people with illegal Windows will jump at MS AV. They will have cracked AV with needed firewall already :)
 

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dk70 said:
wwoods said:
dk70 said:
I think it is made or sponsored by Microsoft so they can prove the point that as long as you use legit Windows and do updates you are safe. Also goes for busineses.
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Youre kidding right ?
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I guess but like the idea. But they dont need to prove that and popular tech sites will make sure point is ignored anyway, focus will be on invisible "threats" "virus", damn hackers...

Im looking forward to Microsoft making free AV this year, think that will improve situation somewhat. There are millions thinking pc/internet is like tv/gamebox so forget good advice, only way is force - or Microsoft pushing stuff down the throat :) AV will be optional of course but still, will increase awareness and probably take out some old dusty crappy bundle-AVs. May be even improve on current free options. Not sure it will do much about piracy though, doubtful people with illegal Windows will jump at MS AV. They will have cracked AV with needed firewall already :)
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Game consoles have gotten viruses I believe, but I am suprised that there are not many more.... :sarc:

Cell phones are going to be a problem coming up in a few years..... That will be a pain....:sa::sa::sa:

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Well, I've been keeping a small tab on this thread and an ear out about the Conficker virus. Nothing happened on April Fool's Day because, supposedly, the heat was too high.

This is an article from Yahoo! News: Conficker worm plays no tricks on April Fools' Day by AFP: Yahoo! Tech

It's saying that there is still a huge threat radiating from this virus, that it isn't over yet. On April Fool's Day, the virus merely evolved... I say merely when the word, honestly, doesn't fit. Apparently, it was downloading commands from about 250 websites daily BEFORE HAND. Now, it brings up a list of 50, 000 and gets commands from 500. Harder to track down.

Soooo yea, I guess it looks like the virus creator is somewhere in east Europe. I'm actually quite curious on what exactly this virus does. Eh, with my bad luck, at least one of my computers is already infected.

Good riddance. :]
 

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My college has put their network in full alert of it again. Was infected badly with it a couple of weeks ago, and they seemed to have cleared it, but now they've put notices up again about it and wanting people to take their pen drives down to tech support for a scan.

That eye chart is a good little checker too, basic, but clever I guess. Happy all the images show for me :)
 

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I'm good. :)

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Viruses and trojan horses change constantly. Conficker.D is being found. They know about Conficker.A to .C. I just send into CA a new Vundo variant. You have to keep your anti-virus software up to date. Latest version, engine, and signatures.
 

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It made a lot of users get their windows updates and anti-virus patched.
 

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The illegal Windows users got burned by this virus. They could not patch and got it.
 

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SCSIraidGURU said:
The illegal Windows users got burned by this virus. They could not patch and got it.
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There are pirated versions of Vista that can allow patching, but a lot of them need to have auto update turned off as well to avoid the piracy check patch that gets sent round regularly, so they more or less let the virus in as well.
 

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Re: Conficker Apocalypsea very go

The conficker is still alive and active.we are up to version .E.

you should read this
NetGuide - New Conficker worm active

it is a very interesting article and sort of gives you and idea of what the virus is up to.
 

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why .......... do you think they'll have me thrown in a dungeon if i was?? ;)

We'll never know who released it
 

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