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Originally posted by: phoenix_blogger
Whts imp on 1st April y only that day?
:) maybe someone befooling us :)
Whts imp on 1st April y only that day?
nice trick ......1st april gonna b here sooon lets c how many get affected by ur trick 😉
| Moderator's Note: Guys This was meant to be an INFORMATIVE POST - To protect your Pc's from such Viruses. Like i have said down below - Just because its near April 1st - every post we make isn't a prank. Link below - go search the Virus yourself - i dont think thousands of websites would all do the same Prank Joke would they? http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2239327/cool-conflicker-panic-say No joke in April Fool's Day computer wormCNN - ?Mar 24, 2009? Will PC worm turn nasty on April Fool's Day?Times Online - ?Mar 23, 2009? So we can PLEASE get off this 'oh its a joke' topic please - because others would all get on the bandwagon and this VIRUS IS REAL - So people might not be fully protected and so dont be ignorant as I-F users who aren't protected can be at risk. |
By Urmee Khan, Digital and Media Correspondent
Last Updated: 11:27AM GMT 27 Mar 2009
Concerns have been raised that hackers could have unrestricted access to every infected machine in the world.
The worm virus has already attacked the Houses of Parliament IT system and many homes and businesses remain at risk.
Known variously as Conficker, Downadup, and Kido, it buries itself deep inside a PC's Windows operating system, from where it can be used by hackers to steal users' passwords and personal information ' including bank details.
The virus first emerged in November which led to Microsoft releasing several patches and updates to defend against infection.
The latest version of the virus has been programmed to instruct infected computers to carry out a particular act on April 1, although internet experts have been unable to determine what.
Mikko Hypponen, a virus expert from F-Secure, said: "It is scary thinking about how much control a hacker could have over all these computers. They would have access to millions of machines."
He added: "We don't know what they are planning to do, if anything.
"I think the machines that are already infected might do something new on April 1," he told the Sun.
More than nine million computers were infected at the bug's peak last month.
Once inside your PC, it sets up files and starts downloading information from a controlling "boss" server.
The infected PCs then form a network and can "talk" to each other, updating and evolving.
The first of three Conficker strains was discovered in November last year.
A second, more aggressive strain followed in December and a third this month. This last strain is reported to contain the April 1 trigger.
To avoid infection, Windows users must download a special free update "patch" from the Microsoft website in addition to antivirus software.
Microsoft, who developed the Windows computer operating system, has offered a $250,000 (172,000) reward for information that leads to the capture and conviction of the authors of Conficker.
Destructive April Fool's worm on its way?
By Chris Null
In an event that hits the computer world only once every few years, security experts are racing against time to mitigate the impact of a bit of malware which is set to wreak havoc on a hard-coded date. As is often the case, that date is April 1.
Malware creators love to target April Fool's Day with their wares, and the latest worm, called Conficker C, could be one of the most damaging attacks we've seen in years.
Conficker first bubbled up in late 2008 and began making headlines in January as known infections topped 9 million computers. Now in its third variant, Conficker C, the worm has grown incredibly complicated, powerful, and virulent... though no one is quite sure exactly what it will do when D-Day arrives.
Thanks in part to a quarter-million-dollar bounty on the head of the writer of the worm, offered by Microsoft, security researchers are aggressively digging into the worm's code as they attempt to engineer a cure or find the writer before the deadline. What's known so far is that on April 1, all infected computers will come under the control of a master machine located somewhere across the web, at which point anything's possible. Will the zombie machines become denial of service attack pawns, steal personal information, wipe hard drives, or simply manifest more traditional malware pop-ups and extortion-like come-ons designed to sell you phony security software? No one knows.
Conficker is clever in the way it hides its tracks because it uses an enormous number of URLs to communicate with HQ. The first version of Conficker used just 250 addresses each day -- which security researchers and ICANN simply bought and/or disabled -- but Conficker C will up the ante to 50,000 addresses a day when it goes active, a number which simply can't be tracked and disabled by hand.
At this point, you should be extra vigilant about protecting your PC: Patch Windows completely through Windows Update and update your anti-malware software as well. Make sure your antivirus software is actually running too, as Conficker may have disabled it.
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