How To remove the Conficker Virus
That Confounded Conficker virus! A brief summary on how to tackle this threat.
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Additional information on the the vuirus may be obtained from the PC and Tech Tips blog;
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It is still not known whether the perceived threat posed by the virus, variously known as Conficker, Downadup, and Kido, will actually turn out to be the biggest ever internet April Fool’s joke or is actually a serious computer threat.
The virus buries itself deep inside a the Windows operating system, where it can be used by hackers to steal users’ passwords and personal information, including bank details, credit card information and any other types of personal information.
Once it is invoked by the pc user, it proceeds to download information from a controlling server, other infected PCs then form a network or a “botnet” and can “talk” to each other, updating and evolving.The source of the downloaded files can then be redistributed among the millions of infected computers. The botnet is basically a drone pc that passes on the malicious programs to other computers. Although your pc may only be serving the malicious files and not actually dong anything else, it can render your pc useless while it download the files and eats your bandwidth.
Experts believe that from midnight on April 1, the Conficker program will start scanning thousands of websites for a new set of instructions telling it what to do next.
At this point, no one really know what the intent is.
Symantec has released a Conficker, Downadup, and Kido virus cleaner which can be downloaded here.
Stay tuned for further developments!
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