Comments on: What is this Conflicken’ Thing?? http://www.geekablog.com/?p=300 - The Official Blog of Geek Housecalls - Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:03:48 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Isabella Edwards http://www.geekablog.com/?p=300&cpage=1#comment-595 Isabella Edwards Sat, 01 May 2010 00:57:17 +0000 http://www.geekablog.com/?p=300#comment-595 I always prefer to use Kasperky over Avast or McAfee. Kaspersky is much better in detecting new viruses and it does not consume too much resources on your desktop PC.*," I always prefer to use Kasperky over Avast or McAfee. Kaspersky is much better in detecting new viruses and it does not consume too much resources on your desktop PC.*,”

]]> By: Andy http://www.geekablog.com/?p=300&cpage=1#comment-68 Andy Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:17:12 +0000 http://www.geekablog.com/?p=300#comment-68 Word this morning is that conficker / conflicker has "awakened" so to speak, and is updating itself to a variant labeled Conficker_E / Conflicker_E via peer-to-peer connection between infected machines. It has also apparently finally begun delivering a payload which experts believe includes: - A keylogger for stealing passwords and account data. - A spambot for sending loads of spam from infected machines - And an extortion-ware variant of the "XP ANTIVIRUS 2009 / ANTIVIRUS 360" malware that's been tricking people into handing over their credit card info to purportedly buy the "fix" (More info on extortion-ware at http://www.geekablog.com/?p=278 ) So infected users can finally expect their PCs to <u>act</u> like they're infected, and uninfected users can expect, well... more spam :( Interestingly, the conflicker worm is expected to unload itself from infected machines on may 3rd, but is expected to leave a port open for future re-infiltration. - Andy Word this morning is that conficker / conflicker has “awakened” so to speak, and is updating itself to a variant labeled Conficker_E / Conflicker_E via peer-to-peer connection between infected machines. It has also apparently finally begun delivering a payload which experts believe includes:

- A keylogger for stealing passwords and account data.
- A spambot for sending loads of spam from infected machines
- And an extortion-ware variant of the “XP ANTIVIRUS 2009 / ANTIVIRUS 360″ malware that’s been tricking people into handing over their credit card info to purportedly buy the “fix” (More info on extortion-ware at http://www.geekablog.com/?p=278 )

So infected users can finally expect their PCs to act like they’re infected, and uninfected users can expect, well… more spam :(

Interestingly, the conflicker worm is expected to unload itself from infected machines on may 3rd, but is expected to leave a port open for future re-infiltration.

- Andy

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