Reports: Conficker From China, Easily Detected

[JMcEntegart]

With April 1 drawing nearer, the Conficker fear has really started to set in. As security experts endeavor to reveal the origin of the virus, others are trying to figure out a method to detect the virus and neutralize the sense of impending doom

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[tester3000]

This is gonna be epic. LOl

 

[tayb]

What? From China? No way...

 

[juvealert]

Can some one link how i would know if i have the virus installed or not? Does anyone kow if NOD32 is capable in detecting the virus?

 

[Shnur]

[citation][nom]juvealert[/nom]Can some one link how i would know if i have the virus installed or not? Does anyone kow if NOD32 is capable in detecting the virus?[/citation]
have no idea... it should be, because it's a good way for anti-virus vendors to prove that they are good and that they can protect you from it. nod32 has a good reputation so it's in their interest to keep it and to get a signature done asap.

 

[CChick]

Any up-to-date AV scanner will be about to detect ver B without any issue.

The newest one is being update atm. So just keep checking your AV scanner.

but seriously speaking, I have no pity to whoever gets hit by this, it was using an old ass "exploit" to get people infected, so yeah its for people thats too retarded to update their systems ... hahaha. My friend's sister got hit, and I was laughing my ass off. Since she tries to blame me for the infection when I never even touched her comp, suck it bitch.

 

[LuxZg]

Well, I have used these Conficker news as an excuse to finaly do some updating in our small company.. I spent all day bringing some older computers up to XP SP3+all patches, not to mention an old server from Windows 2000 to Server 2003 SP2 and stuff like that.. I still have a lot of work for tomorrow, but something bad for somthing good, eh? At least after I'm done I'll know that all computers in the network are on the same level of in(security) and updated as they should be

and if that stopped any malicious operations, than all the better

 

[juvealert]

sry guys to ask this question, but does anyone knows if the conflicker can hijack microsoft outlook 2003 ?

thanks for the reply

 

[nekatreven]

We started forwarding to opendns for external dns lookups at the office. Some people love opendns, some hate it...

I'm on the fence myself, and we may go back to using root servers later, but opendns has (bought, or otherwise) the list of control domains for conflicker, and will tell us if our network starts making requests to look the control domains up.

 

[gamerk316]

In two days...it begins...

 

[fuser]

Who is panicking?

 

[grieve]

OMG it's the 2000 bug all over again!

Settle down, update your unit and go check out the porn as usual.

 

[itadakimasu]

so... can't they shut down the domains that it's coming from>? or do they need some sort of warrant?

The next person to get any kind of malware from internet surfing on my network is going to get put on a tight leash... seriously, nobody is giving you a free Iphone, why would you click on such a thing?

 

[Kary]

April 1st: Chinese virus blocks all porn in the US.
April 2nd: WW III
April 3rd: The human race ends.

 

[mindless728]

where can i get it to give to my friends, remember, sharing is caring, LOL

 

[tipoo]

This Conficker worm is the most exiting piece of malware on the PC for quite some time now, i eagerly await seeing what it really does.

 

[anamaniac]

I agree tipoo. Likely harmless, but its been interesting anyways.
My father got scared.

If Kary is right... I'll be on the front line myself with a rifle... gimme back my porn!

 

[Guest]

Set your computer's date to April 1st and see what happens.

 

[the last resort]

[citation][nom]Commonman[/nom]Set your computer's date to April 1st and see what happens.[/citation]

HAHA. Its one of those things where in theory it shouldn't do anything, but would be really funny to do.

I would also laugh if someone did that, and the entire worm thing got confused, and could no longer figure out what to do.

 

[anamaniac]

Setting to April first.

 

[anamaniac]

Guess I should get a infected computer first. ha

My father's laptop should do.

 

[croc]

Jane, you are constantly referencing a web-site, then providing no link to the article in question.

I have linked this article back to the Register for comment, as I could find nothing on their web-site that seems to match the information that you have provided.

 

[JMcEntegart]

Hi Croc,

There's a link in the first paragraph of the post for the Reg article (I hyper linked "register,") but here you go, http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/03/30/conficker_signature_discovery/ just in case. Thanks for your feedback. I'll make sure I continue to link.

J.

 

[tipoo]

1 more day, folks! I for one am exited, this is the first worm in quite a bit of time to gather so much attention!

 

[coolkev99]

Right now there are probably a million freaked out people clicking on those "virus cleaner" links that are really malware sites infecting more people than ever before. GG.