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confiker due to get new instructions today


Apr 1, 2009 @ 9:38 AM confiker due to get new instructions today    
eyesofastranger


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confiker is one of the most brilliant worms ever written. Today April fools day the worm is to recieve new instructions. Wait and see I guess. The infection is worldwide. I found it before it got in to my system. From facebook.
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Apr 1, 2009 @ 9:45 AM confiker due to get new instructions today    
Gallows_Humor


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Conficker D 2009-03-04 ... HTTP pull
Downloads daily from any 500 of 50000 pseudorandom domains over 110 TLDs
P2P push/pull
Uses custom protocol to scans for peers via UDP, then transfer via TCP

Blocks DNS lookups
Disables AutoUpdate
Kills anti-malware

if you have it..you will not be reading this....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker

edited for...I should have said...if you have it..and it is activated...you will not be reading this

but from all indications..if your operating system is not outdated..your updates are current...your antivirus is current..and you are running a firewall...there should be no issue...



[Edited on 4/1/2009 10:08 AM]
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Apr 1, 2009 @ 10:41 AM confiker due to get new instructions today    
capobeachguy


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There also would be no issue if the idiots at Micro$oft could write a decent version of WinDoze or its derivative server software.
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Apr 4, 2009 @ 10:15 AM confiker due to get new instructions today    
eyesofastranger


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This bug was produced with some serious knowledge and resources. It smells a lot like a government computer science lab is the producer.
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Apr 4, 2009 @ 10:52 AM confiker due to get new instructions today    
alivenwell351


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I've thought for a long time if the truth was ever known, it would likely be the Antivirus folks coming up with all these viruses....
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Apr 4, 2009 @ 10:53 AM confiker due to get new instructions today    
Gallows_Humor


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my opinion too...
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