Source: The Associated Press – Salt Lake City
University of Utah officials say a computer virus has infected more than 700 campus computers, including those at the school’s three hospitals.
University health sciences spokesman Chris Nelson said the outbreak of the Conficker worm, which can slow computers and steal personal information, was first detected Thursday. By Friday, [...]
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Conficker worm hits University of Utah computers
Monday, April 13th, 2009Conficker Removal – Disinfection Tool
Friday, April 10th, 2009Source: ThreatPost/ZDNet
How to fight network worm Conficker
Symptoms of network infection.
1. Network traffic volume increases if there are infected PCs in the network, because network attack starts from these PCs.
2. Anti-Virus product with enabled Intrusion Detection System informs of the attack Intrusion.Win.NETAPI.buffer-overflow.exploit
Short description of the Net-Worm.Win32.Kido family.
1. It creates files autorun.inf and RECYCLED\{SID<….>}\RANDOM_NAME.vmx on [...]
Conficker botnet installs scareware on infected computers
Friday, April 10th, 2009Source: Ryan Naraine @ ZDnet
The Conficker botnet has stirred to life, using its peer-to-peer communication system to update itself and download scareware (fake anti-virus programs) to millions of infected Windows machines.
The Conficker update comes a week after a heavily-hyped April 1st activation date and provides the first sign of the motivation behind this malware threat [...]
SQL Attacks – How best to play it safe
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009We have always explained how important it is to keep your web applications up-to-date. From large forum software, to the simplest of guestlists…if the slightest update has been released for your software, you should upgrade *asap*.
Most of the web applications available today, use some sort of a “back-end” to store all the collected information and [...]
