Conficker worm gets an upgrade


  1. Barman58
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    Conficker worm gets an upgrade


    Conficker worm gets an upgrade


    The Conficker worm, which infected millions of PCs last month, has received an upgrade which makes it much more effective.
    The new variant, dubbed Conficker B++, has been redesigned to get around attempts to shut it down.

    Previous versions checked for software updates from a list of 250 randomly generated URLs. But security companies managed to reverse engineer the algorithm that generated the URLs and design a way to block the software from updating. The new variant now uses a new set of backdoors to update itself.


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  3. Romulinx2
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    Thanks for the updated info. :)
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  4. garysgold
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    Thanks, Nigel.
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  6. jfar
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    Thank You,for the infomation.
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  7. Dinesh
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    just removed one with malwarebytes and avast.
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  8. dmex
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    Patches to stop this worm have been out over 6 months, a long time before this worm started spreading

    Thats what people get for not patching there systems, saying no to windows update is saying yes to virus`s and worms
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