Conficker isn’t dead!

April Fools has already ended, but a dread­ful worm’s, known as Con­ficker, prob­lem is not just ended yet. So don’t rest assure citizens.

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Why the Con­ficker is a major prob­lem for PC (right now)?

Well, because the cre­ator of this worm can’t be tracked down. And the secu­rity experts see that the sit­u­a­tion will get­ting worse as the worm has updated itself.

Giz­modo said:

“The worm did exactly what every­one thought it was going to do, which is update itself,” secu­rity expert Dan Kamin­sky, who helped develop a widely-used Con­ficker scan­ner in the days lead­ing up to April 1, told us. “The world wants there to be fire­works, or some Ebola-class, computers-exploding-all-over-the-world event or God knows what, but the real­ity is…the Con­ficker devel­op­ers have cemented their abil­ity to push updates through any fences the good guys have man­aged to build in Feb­ru­ary and March.”

And here’s why that is deeply, deeply scary. As we explained, Con­ficker has built a zom­bie bot­net infra­struc­ture by reg­is­ter­ing hun­dreds of spam DNS names (askcw.com.ru, and the like), which it then links up and uses as nodes for infected machines to con­tact for instruc­tions. In its ear­lier forms, Con­ficker attempted to reg­is­ter 250 such DNS names per day. But with the third ver­sion of the soft­ware, the Conficker.c vari­ant which has been float­ing around for the last month or so, the num­ber of spam DNS takeovers was boosted to 50,000 per day—a num­ber secu­rity pros can no longer keep up with.

What the April 1 update did was sim­ple: It pro­vided instruc­tions for link­ing up with the thou­sands, per­haps tens of thou­sands of new nodes reg­is­tered by Conficker.c over the last few weeks, effec­tively grow­ing the size of the p2p bot­net to a point where it can not be stopped.

Even though, the worm is pretty dan­ger­ous, but don’t be panic my fel­low. Here’s some solu­tion I could pro­vide you:

1. Buy an iMac, Mac­book, or what­ever sim­i­lar to this
2. For­mat your HDD and install Linux.
3. Bring a ham­mer and start smash the HDD. Then go to the elec­tronic store to buy a new HDD.
4. Or sim­ply just use Nor­ton, just like Shokotan rec­om­mended it (actu­ally all type of secu­rity soft­ware works).
5. If not suf­fi­cient then… Unin­stall all secu­rity soft­ware, and then go to nh.zwafepcyr.com. Is this sufficient?

Be care­ful PC users, Con­ficker may come to haunt you some­day. And be sure to put on your protection.

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PS. CONFICKER IS NOT HAPPENING. IGNORE CONFICKER.

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