With April 1st come and gone, many people are wondering "How do I know if I have the Conficker worm?" How do you know if you have the Conficker virus? (Also known asDownadup.) Here's how to tell if you have the Conficker virus. With the Conficker Eye Chart. Now the answer to how to know if you have the Conficker worm is just a link-click away!
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Articles on Virus & AntiVirusWith April 1st come and gone, many people are wondering "How do I know if I have the Conficker worm?" How do you know if you have the Conficker virus? (Also known asDownadup.) Here's how to tell if you have the Conficker virus. With the Conficker Eye Chart. Now the answer to how to know if you have the Conficker worm is just a link-click away! The Conficker worm or Conficker virus (also known as Downadup or W32/Downadup), which has been in the news a lot lately, is currently estimated to have infected more than 9 million Windows computers the world over, and continues to spread at an alarming rate. With a $250,000 bounty on its head offered by Microsoft, and set to activate on April 1st, nobody yet knows what the millions of PCs infected by the Conficker worm will be ordered to do, but it's a sure bet that if and when it happens, it will be nasty. Fortunately there are ways to combat it and even a free Conficker removal tool. Stupid users are the worst problem on the Internet, according to this survey of more than 600 Internet users. A devious new method of getting unsuspecting users to download Trojan malware to their computers takes the form of a fake parking ticket placed on their car's windshield. The ticket, reading "PARKING VIOLATION This vehicle is in violation of standard parking regulations," contains a web address to download a "toolbar" to view images of the car that is the subject of the "ticket". Of course, the 'toolbar' isn't really a toolbar at all - it's the Trojan. The Waledec botnet is using spam that claims that "Obama Quits", explaining that "Barack Obama abandoned sinking ship" and that Obama doesn't want any more to be president, in order to lure unsuspecting users to add their PCs to its group of zombied computers that it uses to do its dirty work. Other subject lines include "Who Will Be Our President Now?", "End time for the USA", and "Haven't you heard latest news about our president-elect?" A new computer worm called Downadup - also known as the Conficker worm - is spreading like wildfire across personal computers, even though it has only been on the scene for a relatively short time. First spotted just weeks ago, in November, the Downadup worm is estimated to already be resident on at least 3 1/2 million PCs. If your computer is suddenly doing strange things such as running very slowly, or you are suddenly getting pop ups advertising various products such as the notorious Winfixer, along with others such as Storage Protector, Sysprotect, and AntiSpywareMaster (that are really spyware, not anti-spyware), your computer may be infected with the Vundo virus. Known also as the Vundo Trojan, Virtumonde, or Virtumondo and sometimes even as MS Juan (which Vundo leaves in your registry), the Vundo virus was first discovered back in 2004, but has recently made a reappearance, infecting countless PCs. And it's darn hard to eradicate. A new worm is raising havoc for Facebook and MySpace users. Called Koobface (and alternatively the Facebook Worm, MySpace Worm, Facebook Virus, or MySpace Virus), the MySpace and Facebook worm posts messages on Facebook and MySpace with links to what it claims to be a video. When the users follow the Koobface MySpace or Facebook worm link, they are told that they need to update their video player, and to "click here". Of course, what they download isn't really a video player update, it's a trojan called "codecsetup.exe" which allows their computer to be taken over and controlled remotely. We've been getting complaints of "Classmates.com email trying to take over my computer" and "I clicked a link in a Classmates .com email and my computer froze"... or "..and my computer told me I had a virus." This is because Classmates.com has fallen prey to spyware called XPOnlineScanner (XP Online Scanner). XPOnlineScanner claims to be an XP antivirus software, but is really spyware, and Classmates.com currently has some advertising banners are acting as a conduit for XPOnlineScanner to download itself on to your Windows PC. Hewlett Packard has issued a Security Bulletin detailing a security vulnerability with two types of optional HP USB drives intended for use with some of the ProLiant family of servers. This vulnerability could cause a local 'W32.Fakerecy' or 'W32.SillyFDC' virus infection. Yes, HP is unwittingly distributing malware. Those Valentine greetings that you are receiving, often in the guise of free e Valentine cards, may be sending you more than "Happy Valentines Day" greetings. In fact, they may contain a virus or two. Phony trojan Valentine greetings include subjects such as "Sent with Love", "Our Love Will Last", "Our Love is Strong", "You're the One", "A Toast My Love", "Falling In Love with You", "Special Romance", "Your Love Has Opened", "Heavenly Love", and "You're In My Thoughts". You know that you live in the 21st century when your picture frame can give your computer a virus. It sounds like something out of science fiction, but it's true. The SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute has said this week that Best Buy's Insignia brand digital picture frame can infect Best Buy customers' PCs with what it is terming "an older computer virus." Best Buy is now recalling the picture frames. In a new twist, web spammers are using images of a stripper named Melissa to dupe naive Windows users into helping them break CAPTCHAs - those "enter this text" images that websites rely on to keep spammers from posting spam on their site. Dubbed the CAPTCHA.a or Captchar.a virus, an infected Windows computer will display a picture of Melissa, who promises to remove an article of clothing for each "puzzle" that the user solves. A new wave of spam hitting everybody's inboxes takes the form of a welcome to one or another website and service, complete with temporary login information and a link to 'change your temporary password'. The subjects all say some variant of "Login Information", "Member Details", "Registration Details" or, even, occasionally, "Internet Techincal Support" (sic). What they also all have in common is that if you click on that link, your computer will have just become a botnet pimp's newest bitch. If you use Gmail, it is likely that on occasion you will get an email that says something like 'Message left on server: "(no subject)"' or 'Message left on server: "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender"', or 'Message left on server:" followed by some random subject. The message, which comes from "Gmail Team A rash of virus-laden spam has been going around posing as Hallmark e-cards or other e-cards. "You've received a greeting ecard from a friend" says the subject. Variations include "You've received a greeting card from a partner", "You've received a greeting postcard from a class-mate", and "You've received a greeting ecard from a class mate". The "ecard" appears to come from such legitimate sounding addresses as hallmark.com, MyPostcards.com, postcards.org, e-cards.com, NetFunCards.com, FunnyPostcards.com, Greeting-Cards.com, and VintagePostcards.com. Whatever the variation, it's not only spam, it's almost certainly carrying a virus or a trojan which will turn your computer into a spam- and virus-sending robot. An article this week by the Wall Street Journal blares out that "Hackers Can Now Deliver Viruses via Web Ads". It's not like the WSJ to go the sensationalist route, so we can only assume that the reporter doesn't usually cover the Internet security beat. Regardless, this type of fear mongering is irresponsible at best, unforgivable at worst. Talk about the latest detailed news on botnets! The ultimate of an inside look at botnets - it is the real, first-hand account of what happened this week when a zombie botnet woke up, based on some unseen signal triggered or programmed by the botnet owner, and took over hundreds of customer computers at a large US broadband ISP. Consumer Reports has released their recommendations for the best anti spam software, the best anti spyware remover, and the best anti virus software. The latest round in McAfee Antivirus heartache has people complaining that perfectly legitimate and innocent websites are being called "phishing sites" by McAfee. In addition, McAfee is wreaking havoc with Lotus Notes, causing computers to freeze, and locking programs, sometimes requiring a complete reinstall. And if your McAfee antivirus program identifies any of usersid.exe, imjpinst.exe, ecenter.exe, ntfstype.exe, adobeupdatemanager.exe, gtb2k1033.exe, 43gcjvgahnu44.ths, excel.exe or graph.exe as malicious files, well, don't take its word for it, and don't delete them! Spam laden with trojan viruses are running high this month - primarily the Small.DAM Trojan - so be extra careful. Common subject lines include those about "Storm Batters Europe", updates on Condoleeza Rice, and claims that Putin is dead and Hussein is alive. The subject lines vary, but the Trojan payload remains the same: executable files surreptitiously installed on your computer, with file names such as "Full Story.exe", "Full Text.exe", "Full Video.exe", "Video.exe", "Full Clip.exe" or "Read More.exe", or such. A number of video iPods have shipped with the Windows RavMonE virus, says Apple. The iPod virus, which shows as RavMonE.exe was discovered in a small number of video iPods shipped after Septemer 12th. The Spyware Guide has broken wide open a story involving Google's Orkut service. Having discovered what it has dubbed "Orc.Malware", the Spyware guide has investigated and found that Google's Orkut is infested with the malwaree. Email claiming to be a CNN newsflash with the headline "Osama Bin Laden Discovered Dead" is making the rounds. It contains a file called "photo+article.zip". Don't open it! Archiveus is the newest of a string of Trojans being dubbed "ransomware" because they lock and hold your files hostage until you either purchase something from the ransomware's author or pay the ransomware's author money outright. Here is the password to unlock your files which have been locked by the ransomware Archiveus. A new trojan virus, Win32.WOW, steals your World of Warcraft password and lets the trojan's author steal your World of Warcraft gold and World of Warcraft items, and sell them out from under your nose. A nasty new Windows ransom trojan called Ransom-A (also Troj/Ransom-A and TROJ_RANSOM.A) freezes your computer, and if you don't pay it ransom money, it starts deleting your files. There's been a lot in the news lately about computer viruses hiding on RFID chips. It all started when a group of researchers presented a paper this week, entitled "Is your cat infected with a computer virus?" The paper, written by three computer ... "Bot Herder" Jeanson James Ancheta, the BotNet operator taken down by the Feds, told colleagues of operating the botnet of more than 400,000 infected PCs, "It's immoral, but the money makes it right." A new AIM worm, called IM.Myspace04.AIM, attempts to get you to download the clarissa17.pif file by appearing to interact with you. But give IM.Myspace04.AIM and clarissa17.pif the cold shoulder! If you get an anonymous online postcard in your email, don't follow the link! It's really Dloader-UT and Dumaro-S come a'knockin'. A new survey says that women have safer web surfing and Internet security habits than do men. Some question these findings, while others point out that neither is being particularly safe. Worm-rbot.cbq, rbot.ebq, Win.32.rbot.ebq, Zotob, Botzor.exe, or Zobot - whatever you call it, and whichever it is, it's causing a whole lot of trouble across the United States. Microsoft has this week released an updated version of its Malicious Software Removal Tool for Windows (KB890830). This free tool is not a replacement for anti-virus, anti-spyware, or anti-spamware. Rather it is a separate, additional tool (and did I mention that it's free?), ... Microsoft's new operating system, Vista, was barely out in beta when security company F-Secure advised that an Austrian going by the nickname of "Second Part to Hell" had already written a Vista virus. F-Secure has dubbed the new virus "Danom". The ... While consumers, and indeed the online security industry, have typically not paid much mind to warnings of nasties being sent to or through a Bluetooh device, experts are warning that this needs to change. Case in point: the newly discovered Doombot.A, ... The Kirvo Trojan visits you via Instant Messenger, blazing a trail so that Spybot can then install itself on your system. And once you have a Spybot infestation, all bets are off. The newest worm in the big apple known as the Internet is worm_opaniki.y, also known as Oscabot-L. What makes Opaniki.y unique is that it impersonates iTunes, by sending itself around disguised as "iTunes.exe". Propogating itself across AOL's Instant Messenger platform, AIM, Opaniki.y / ... A new worm has hit the streets, and it's a double-edged worm. The Lebreat worm, which is mailing itself around calling itself "Breatle AntiVirus" is both a network worm and a mass-email worm. It's two, two, two worms in one. According to ... Like Christopher Pierson, the Tsunami Spammer before him, some sicko has decided to take advantage of the recent bombing in London, and to use them as a hook for his (or her) spam, which carries a Trojan horse to the victim's computer. The spam ... It turns out that crime does pay, after all. Informants, that is. Microsoft has announced that they will pay out a promised $250,000 USD reward to two informants who helped lead authorities to Sasser creator Sven Jaschan. The teenaged Jaschan was tried ... Sven Jaschan looks like, and by most accounts is, a typical teenager. That is, except for that small matter of bringing hundreds of thousands of computer systems around the world to a screeching halt - or at least a snail's paced crawl ... Top Internet security companies agree and are warning that at least one virus writer is specifically targeting government computer systems, both in the UK and the United States, and elsewhere. Said Dave Cowings, a Senior Business Intelligence Manager for security company Symantec, "This appears ... Not content to just do its normal wormly dirty work, a new variation on the infamous Bagle worm, Win32.Glieder, brings with it two companion Trojans, Win32.Fantibag and Win32.Mitglieder (literally, in German, "with Glieder"). Said Chris Thomas, a security architect with Computer Associates, "We've seen ... This is an update on the Gpic.aol worm which is borne by AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). This is the worm which spreads itself by sending the target (that's you) an instant message via AIM which says "damn this looks just like me ... A newly discovered worm dubbed "Gpic.aol" and being transported via AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) arrives as an instant message along the lines of "damn this looks just like me lol" and proffering a link which claims to be a link to pictures.google.com However, as ... LYNNFIELD, Mass., June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Sophos, a global leader in network security, has published a report revealing the top ten viruses and hoaxes causing problems for businesses around the world during the month of May 2005. This report, compiled by ... Mitglieder.DC Is a Malicious Code Designed to Kill Processes Belonging to IT Security Programs, Leaving Computers Unprotected Against Other Possible Attacks - Detections in ActiveScan Are Increasing Progressively, Because It Is Being Mass-Mailed GLENDALE, Calif., June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- ... Just in time to make Memorial Day weekend really memorable, both AOL and Yahoo Instant Messengers are being targeted, the former by an Internet worm, the latter by a phishing scam. "hehe i found this funny movie", says your AOL AIM Instant Messenger ... Surely as night follows day, fake Microsoft updates now follow Microsoft's genuine monthly security updates. The real Microsoft updates come out on the second Tuesday of each month. By the second Wednesday of each month, there are fake patches being spammed ... A new AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) virus is being reported, and this one sure is a friendly little guy. After taking over your AIM buddy list, it sends out instant messages to all of your friends, inviting them to visit a link ... A new version of the Sober worm, dubbed "Sober V" is using a new tactic to lure users into opening the email in which it lays in wait: free soccer tickets. Timing its launch with that of a genuine mailing campaign by FIFA, ... A new virus aimed (no pun intended) at AOL Instant Messenger Windows users has been discovered this week. It will appear to come from one of your buddies, with a message of "hey check this out!", along with a link to ... The new W32/Nopir-B virus is a worm with a mission: to search and destroy MP3 files on its victims hard drives. Ouch. While it seems to be aimed at trying to target music pirates who populate their music collection ... There's a new Sober worm in town, and this one is both clever and bilingual, being sent in both English and German. The new Sober worm version, being called W32.Sober.N@mm (such appealing names!) originated in Europe, and announces itself in English with ... Microsoft Windows users are the target of a particularly titillating new worm, which in turn is targeting Microsoft itself. "Watch Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt caught on TAPE! SEXY CLIP! WATCH IT!", the email says. And apparently you'd be surprised by ... DVForge, known to Mac lovers the world 'round for such products as the SightFlex, MacMice, and the Ball, has cancelled its contest in which it offered $25,000 to the first person who wrote a virus directed at OS X, and who could incapacitate ... MSN Messenger has been added to the list of instant messenger programs which require heightened vigilence. Two security companies have discovered that there are two worms, one old and revised, and one new, which are targetting MSN Messenger users. As if ... The newest version of the MyDoom worm, discovered just today, not only still creates its own SMTP engine allowing it to send email from infected machine to every email address it can find on the computer, but this new and "improved" MyDoom also ... Two independent security firms have issued alerts over the next generation Bropia worm this week. Danish security company Secunia has issued what it calls a "medium" alert about the newly discovered version of Bropia, warning that it is spreading quickly through MSN ... Security company Sophos is reporting that the new spam-engine worm, Bobax.H, is enticing Windows users to open (and thus unleash) it by offering what it alleges to be pictures of a dead Saddam Hussein, supposedly killed during an escape attempt. Targetting computers running Windows, ... Anti-virus firm Sophos has reported that a new virus, Crowt-A, is actually ripping off headlines from CNN, and using them as both the subject line of the spam containing the virus, as well as the file name for the virus payload itself. Not only ... A newly discovered Internet work, dubbed "Bropia.A", is targetting Windows and MSN Messenger messaging clients. The worm does a host of nasty things, including sending a copy of itself to all of the messaging contacts found on the victim's computer, installing a Trojan horse ... Security and anti-virus company Sophos is reporting that there is a new worm out this week which targets Windows users (don't they all?) Dubbed "Cellery", due to the text which appears on its splash screen, the worm offers its victims genuine entertainment in the ... Tempting though it may be, if you get an email in your inbox which promises a photo of naked people spelling out "Happy New Year" with their bodies, don't open it. Not, mind you, that the picture isn't there - it is ( although ... It seems that online baddies are again using a flaw in the Windows help system to help themselves - to access to your computer system. As reported by Aunty last week, a flaw in the help system for certain releases of Windows, along ... Anti-virus leader Trend Micro has announced that they are offering a free virus and spam checker for mobile phones. With more and more people carrying an almost dizzying array of increasingly sophisticated "Smart Phones", many analysts see cell phones as the next frontier for ... Information Security Magazine, following extensive review, has published its list of the top security products for 2004. Evaluating products in a baker's dozen of categories, and with a first, second, and third place in each (gold, silver, and bronze, respectively), this is ... The newest version of MyDoom does not even have a file attached to it, making it look even less suspect, and less worm- or virus-like. Instead, it exploits one of the more recently discovered holes in Internet Explorer, through which clicking on a URL ... The newest of the sinsister worm types of viruses, Sasser, has attacked Windows-based computers around the world. Even more insidious than its earlier siblings, Sasser scans the Internet for computers with the Microsoft security flaw which allows it to do its dirty work, and ... |
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