How Do I Protect My Computer Against Conficker?
I’ve been hearing a lot about that virus conficker thats suppose to infect computers tomarrow on april fools, i was wondering how serious will the attack be, and what can i do to protect my computer
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you need antivirus and antispwyare to keep your pc protected. however, if your computer is not infected with conficker, this april 1st thing has nothing to do with you. it only affects computers that are infected already. here’s all the information you need to know about conficker worm: http://www.spywarevoid.com/remove-confic…
The Conficker worm is a computer worm that can infect your computer and spread itself to other computers across a network automatically, without human interaction. however it only affect window system as it exploit a vulenrability found last year on windows
More info below
Prevention and Information about Conficker Computer Virushttp://www.review-ninja.com/2009/03/conf…
Follow given below step that will help your computer against coficker..
Step 1
Disable Auto-play in Windows. For Vista: Start > Control Panel > click Play CD’s or other media automatically > uncheck Use Autoplay for all media and devices. > click OK. For XP: Start > Run Enter GPEDIT.MSC >
The Group Policy dialogue box will appear. On left panel, double-click Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Double-click the Turn autoplay off option. The reason behind disabling autoplay is that Conficker can be spread through USB flash drives infected with code that starts on auto-play when the infected drive is inserted into the computer. Disabling auto-play is a good way to ensure against any malicious code automatically gaining access to your computer.
Step2
If you have the Conficker worm, DO NOT DO A SYSTEM RESTORE. Like most malware, Conficker hangs in the restore points and reactivates when you do a system restore. Utilize a decent anti-virus solution such as AVG, Avast!, or Malwarebyte’s Anti-Malware. Again, disconnecting your computer from the Internet is critical to prevent the spread of the worm or the continued use of your computer by the worm for devious purposes. Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool can be used to detect and remove the Conficker worm as an option as well.
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Andrew
And the award for “Best April Fool’s Day joke” for the year 2009 has to go to this whole Conficker worm scare. It seems that everyone was panicking for nothing, no doomsday, no end of the world…*sigh* kind of a let down actually.
http://hardocp.com/news.html?news=Mzg3NDIsLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdCwsLDE=
Read this:http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/132464