Googling for Conficker clean-up information? Be careful

March 31st, 2009 Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 12:03 pmCategories:Arbitrary Code Execution, Browsers, Data theft, Denial of Service (DoS), Exploit code, Google, Malware, Microsoft, Phishing, Responsible disclosure, Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Viruses and WormsTags:Antivirus, Malware, Cyber-criminals, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Ryan NaraineIf you’re trawling the Web for [...]

Strange April Fools’/D-Day Prank

While the computing population is secretly expecting fireworks once DOWNAD-infected PCs start accessing some of its 50,000 generated URLs, we at Trend Micro know that cybercrime operates in almost absolute stealth. Preaching this alongside best practices like immediately installing OS, productivity and security software updates is a drum security workers beat tirelessly. In an [...]

Do I own my machine?

The built-in Webcam light is on. It shouldn’t be on. I’m not using any recording, video-conferencing or photo applications. Why is it on? Is someone watching me? It’s at times like this I get the eerie feeling that I don’t actually, fully and completely own my machine. Turns out it was a driver problem, [...]

A Message For Your IT Director About the Conficker Worm

Many businesses often wait to push Windows Updates to computers on a network. IT Directors tend to prevent updates and patches our of concern for how those updates will conflict with your server or network. Allowing automatic updates could potentially break your operations.

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Conficker C. To fear? Or not to fear?

p2pnet news view | Security:- Remember back at the beginning of the century when YK2 bugs were going to devastate everyone’s computer? And nothing happened? Well, tomorrow is C Day when another virus will supposedly wreak havoc online . It’s called the April Fool virus, or the Conficker C worm, sometimes misspelled Conflicker or Confickr. [...]