Ahaa!! Microsoft seems to be really pissed off by the impact of conficker worm that it has announced an award of $250000 for the arrest of its author. Conficker is the real latest worm that has badly hit millions of users using Microsoft Windows. Well good luck for catching the author but here I will mention some tips which can help in conficker arrest.

1. Admin access. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. Also a study also found that eliminating Admin rights would have stopped or mitigated: Read more »

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Win32/Conficker.B is a worm that infects other computers across a network by exploiting a vulnerability in the Windows Server service (SVCHOST.EXE). If the vulnerability is successfully exploited, it could allow remote code execution when file sharing is enabled. It may also spread via removable drives and weak administrator passwords. It disables several important system services and security products.Remember even one unpatched machine is enough to have this worm spread through the entire network.Ms08-67 worm is spreading infection over millions of computers.

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001579.html

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Recent outbreak of MS08-67 worm, Downadup/Conflicker has already infected more than 9 million PCs. A special thing about this Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-67 was that it was released out-of-band, it was given an “Exploitability Index Assessment” of “1 – Consistent exploit code likely” and it allows for Remote Code Execution, in numerous versions of Windows (particularly critical for 2000, XP, and Server 2003).

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An article at Microsoft gives technical details of Worm:Win32/Conficker.A which is supposed to be in wild.

The details can be briefed as follows:

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I hope you all had found my previous post worth reading… ! Well… This time I’m here with a new topic…. Its called Self Replicating Programs… Or in simple words, what we use to call them — Computer Virus !!

Before I proceed, let me just brief you about what exactly a virus is ! A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user. The history of computer viruses dates back to 1949, when theories for self replicating programs were first developed. First “on the wild” virus came into existence in 1981. These viruses, named Apple Viruses 1,2 and 3 were found on Apple II operating system. Since then, viruses are evolving with time getting new enhancements each time. For a complete list of virus timeline, I suggest you to visit this site.

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