Category: Viruses in the Wild
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Some conficker lessons learned – isc The Internet Storm Center has some good lessons learned about the Conficker worm. They’re posted from an academic institution, which ran into the infection […]
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It’s been a busy week for the virus creators and the antivirus companies. And we’re all the collateral damage. On April 8, Conficker finally got the update that the world […]
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First Conficker Update After April 1st – Security Labs Alert Websense Security is reporting that Conficker has received an update via P2P. As of this reporting, they haven’t determined […]
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As reported by Microsoft and Websense in the past few days, an old worm called Neeris has a new look. The people behind the worm have updated it to use […]
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April 1 has come and gone. Office and friendly April Fools pranks happened and people had a good laugh about them. The media had hyped this April 1 as the […]
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Well, it’s officially April 1 in some parts of the world. As of this posting, it’s 1:35 am GMT. I have a monitor in my System Tray that gives me […]
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Detecting Conficker | The Honeynet Project The Honeynet Project has a simple scanner on their site for detecting the Conficker infections. It’s mainly recommended for Network Administrators, however you […]
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Update on Conficker.C – Security Labs Alert Websense has a fairly comprehensive blog post about Conficker up at the link above. There are some technical details in it, so […]
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CBS 60 Minutes covers Conficker, malware epidemic | Zero Day | ZDNet.com ZDNet (A CBS affiliate) has a video from 60 Minutes that covers the Conficker worm. Lesley Stahl […]
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Everyone seems to be doing daily or hourly updates on the Conficker worm. Even if it’s only action on April 1 is to start looking at 500 domains instead of […]