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As a reminder, the Conflicker Worm is supposed to strike tomorrow. Here is some information concerning the worm, from the Trend website:
It looks like all of the antivirus vendors have a free tool to detect and remove the worm, links below.
Link: Trend: The DOWNAD/Conflicker Worm
Link: Symantec: The Conflicker Worm
Technorati tag: conflicker
DOWNAD.KK shuts down security services, blocks infected computers from connecting to security websites, and downloads a Trojan. It also reaches out to other infected computers via peer-to-peer communications services, and includes an algorithm to update infected PCs.
What’s the goal of this worm?
It appears that the goal of this worm is to create a large botnet of infected PCs so that its creators may at some point send spam, steal personal information (user IDs, passwords, credit card info, etc.) and direct users to malicious websites used for phishing or downloading additional malware.
What’s happening on April 1st?
On April 1st, 2009, the latest variant (WORM_DOWNAD.KK) will begin to modify the way in which it communicates with other infected botnet nodes (PCs, servers), and will also increase the number of machines it attempts to contact in order to infect them. There is no evidence that the worm will do anything beyond modifying its communications methods.
It looks like all of the antivirus vendors have a free tool to detect and remove the worm, links below.
Link: Trend: The DOWNAD/Conflicker Worm
Link: Symantec: The Conflicker Worm
Technorati tag: conflicker
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