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The (Conficker) Worm Crawls In …

March 31st, 2009 · No Comments

Webmasters across the internet are encouraging their readers across the Internet to turn off and unplug their modems and computers before 11:59 PM tonight, March 31, 2009 and leaving them off all day April 1, and I’m one of them!  This is because a worm called Conficker or DownAdUP is stepping up its daily assault on websites from 250 to 50,000.

Vexing computer worm to evolve on April Fool’s Day

by Staff Writers
San Francisco (AFP) March 29, 2009

A tenacious computer worm which has wriggled its way onto machines worldwide is set to evolve on April Fool’s Day, becoming harder to exterminate but not expected to wreak havoc.

A task force assembled by Microsoft has been working to stamp out the worm, referred to as Conficker or DownAdUP, and the US software colossus has placed a bounty of 250,000 dollars on the heads of those responsible for the threat.

The worm is programmed to modify itself on Wednesday to become harder to stop, according to Trend Micro threat researcher Paul Ferguson, who is part of the Conficker task force.

Conficker is programmed to reach out to 250 websites daily to download commands from its masters.

On Wednesday, the worm will begin connecting with 50,000 websites daily to better hide where orders originate, according to Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure computer security firm.

I also highly recommend getting or updating an antivirus program and your Microsoft security updates before the end of the day.  Links to a few top antivirus software developers will follow, or you can go to “Help” in your antivirus or Internet Explorer interface to make sure you have the most up-to-date protection.

www.symantic.com
www.trendmicro.com

I use www.avast.com.  It’s free, and they update their virus database once a day.

Catch you on the Backside, and Happy Easter and Passover!

Janice Manning
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Tags: Computer virus · Internet · Internet Security · War on Terror