Conficker Variant Expected To Self-destruct Soon

[Peaches]

Conficker Variant Expected to Self-Destruct Soon

Ellen Messmer, Network World

-Secure, Trend Micro and SecureWorks are among those that believe Conficker.E -- first spotted just this April and probably created by the same attackers that since last fall let loose the Conficker.A through Conficker.C variants -- has been designed to simply self-detonate on May 5th.

"It will simply self-destruct," says Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, pointing out that researchers, who had been arguing over name for variants, agreed to skip past the name "Conficker.D" entirely to settle on the name "Conficker.E."

But even if Conficker.E does simply self-destruct as expected, that still leaves millions of Windows-based computers around the work infected with Conficker.C, which has become active this month in terms of beginning to try and lure victims to fake anti-virus sites--some dub it "fraudware"--to get victims to pay US$50 or so to get rid of Conficker.C.

"We're starting to see some revenue generation," said Phillip Porras, program director in the computer sciences laboratory at SRI International, in a presentation he gave today at the RSA Conference here concerning Conficker. "We're starting to see some business models come out of it."

PC World article - http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/arti...truct_soon.html

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[johnpol78]

conficker is the virus, which is more powerful that destroys the computer windows .

so that it is important to installed the anti virus and update these anti virus software's continuously so to protect the computer from the conficker.

this is the new virus so there are no anti virus software that will help to protect the computer from the virus.