Confiker Virus
Posted: 31 Mar 2009, 12:59
I don't know if this is just another hoax or what, but I got this e-mail at work abot 5 min ago and figured I would pass it along to anyone else.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT for informational purpose:
For anyone that has caught the news lately or perhaps already know, April 1st of this year comes with an added sense of foreboding and dread, especially if you depend on a Windows based computer on a day-to-day basis. The Conficker Worm is the widest spread computer infection the world has seen; the estimates for computers currently infected with a variant of the Conficker Worm range in the 5 million to 15 million user range. Depending on the variant, the Conficker Worm can make changes to user account lockout policies, disable Windows Services, disable access to websites that host Anti-virus resources and updates, and create massive peer–to-peer connections with other infected PC’s, allowing data to be shared among them. It also attaches itself to Windows processes, and can perform other functions such as collecting user names and passwords.
We advise each of you to make sure your computers are as prepared as possible. Included in this email are links to the Microsoft patches. We would also recommend you share this with your user community and encourage them to update any Anti-Virus software that they have on their home PC’s and suggest running some kind of spy ware removal tool… here is a recommend tool, BitDefender (here is the link to the latest BitDefender tool http://www.bdtools.net/). And as a reminder don’t open emails, e-cards, attachments, or go to web links that you are unfamiliar with.
Windows XP- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en
Windows Vista- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT for informational purpose:
For anyone that has caught the news lately or perhaps already know, April 1st of this year comes with an added sense of foreboding and dread, especially if you depend on a Windows based computer on a day-to-day basis. The Conficker Worm is the widest spread computer infection the world has seen; the estimates for computers currently infected with a variant of the Conficker Worm range in the 5 million to 15 million user range. Depending on the variant, the Conficker Worm can make changes to user account lockout policies, disable Windows Services, disable access to websites that host Anti-virus resources and updates, and create massive peer–to-peer connections with other infected PC’s, allowing data to be shared among them. It also attaches itself to Windows processes, and can perform other functions such as collecting user names and passwords.
We advise each of you to make sure your computers are as prepared as possible. Included in this email are links to the Microsoft patches. We would also recommend you share this with your user community and encourage them to update any Anti-Virus software that they have on their home PC’s and suggest running some kind of spy ware removal tool… here is a recommend tool, BitDefender (here is the link to the latest BitDefender tool http://www.bdtools.net/). And as a reminder don’t open emails, e-cards, attachments, or go to web links that you are unfamiliar with.
Windows XP- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en
Windows Vista- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en