Conflicker Worm Virus

[Conch Republican]

My team is working on info for this, but it looks like all the major Anti-Virus companies have fixes for this (Symantec, McAfee, etc.)

Also this link might help as well: http://windowssecrets.com/2009/03/30/01-Run-a-removal-tool-before-April-1

[AD720]

Good post.


More useful info (including removal tools) here:

http://www.iss.net/threats/conficker.html

[Conch Republican]

Thanks Andrew

[AD720]

Thanks Andrew

You are welcome. :tu


Over here it is so far so good. We have close to 150 machines...knock on wood.

[Conch Republican]

And for the record - the link is NOT a rickroll (for April Fool's sake) :D

[St. Lou Stu]

As much hype as this has received, I'm looking at it like y2k all over again.

200 some odd desktops here and 25-30 servers..... all is well.

[ahc4353]

What does it do?

[St. Lou Stu]

I think it flicks con?

No one knows. That is why it is a buncha BS hype. There are dangerous virii out there every day, this one is just being associated with April fools day so the media is having a field day.

All my opinion, of course.

[ChicagoWhiteSox]

Was the virus going to do something today?

[AD720]

What does it do?


I think it flicks con?

No one knows. That is why it is a buncha BS hype. There are dangerous virii out there every day, this one is just being associated with April fools day so the media is having a field day.

All my opinion, of course.

Like Stu said, no one really knows. But when you consider how large of a botnet it is (something like 8% of all the PCs in the world) there is some reason for concern. Really it is only going to affect far out of date systems.

Was the virus going to do something today?

If I understand it correctly today was the day that it was supposedly going to start recieving messages from those that control the botnet. Again, no one really knows.

[ChicagoWhiteSox]

So it was just sitting in the weeds waiting for a command. Usually viruses already have commands when sent out.

[Conch Republican]

Or as someone pointed out - it might be a big April Fools Day joke...but better safe than sorry as far as I am concerned (especially with 20,000+ computers not counting servers)

Have a cigar and some popcorn - and wait and see what happens :ss

[ahc4353]

I thought it bombed the hell out of you anonymously. I had that virus a week or so ago. :D

[Conch Republican]

Yes you did!! :r:r:r

[357]

850 servers, 15-20,000 PCs and no word of an outbreak. I'm pretty sure the Zero day patch Microsoft released in October prevented this vulnerability. I pulled an 18 hour day back then to make sure all 800+ servers were patched. Made it home at about 6AM the next day.