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We know Mac OS and assorted apps like QT have documented vulnerabilities.
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Still zero viruses in the wild for the Mac and as a professional Network Security Engineer, that lets me sleep well at night even as my 8 year old surfs the net from her Mac.Ī "professional network security engineer" makes the statement "Still zero viruses in the wild for the Mac"? Fine, but I can't help but laugh. Next: Report: China, Russia Top Sources of Power Grid Probes
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Previous: Digital Pearl Harbor, Cyber 9/11, and E-Qaeda | Tags: conficker worm, rogue anti-virus, russkranians, scareware, spywareprotect2009 They have a removal tool, available here that you should be able to grab. For instance, Conficker blocks infected systems from visiting, but not, which is the same domain. If you have Conficker on your system, you will not be able to use that computer to visit most security sites. You can tell whether your system is infected with this worm by visiting this page here and viewing the results of the eye chart. ET: Just wanted to remind readers about Conficker detection and removal advice. "There are still some unknowns here, but things are becoming a lot more clear, and it certainly seems they're making a move here to finally monetize all this effort," Ferguson said. But he said it's evident the worm's authors are ready to start putting it to work.
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"We have several nodes that have it and several that don't."įerguson said there are still several components tucked away in this Conficker update that researchers are struggling to unlock. "We've seen it happen very slow and staggered," he said. Perhaps that is due to some ill-understood logic within Conficker, but not all of the systems infected with Conficker.C are receiving the latest updates, said Paul Ferguson, an advanced threat researcher at Trend. It also instructs the Waledac component to remove itself if the date is on or after May 3, 2009. The Conficker update also sets up a Web server on the infected system, re-enables the ability to spread itself through the Microsoft Windows vulnerability that caused the outbreak in the first place (this spreading capability was absent in the Conficker version prior to this update).
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Due to similarities in the code and other telltale signs, researchers consider Waledac to be the reincarnation of the "Storm worm," a spam virus that also used a sophisticated P2P mechanism to spread and share updates. Trend found that the update was a version of the Waledac family of spam Trojans.
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They later determined the file had been placed there via Conficker's built-in peer-to-peer (P2P) communications capability, which allows large groupings of infected systems to hand off software updates and instructions being pushed out by the worm authors.
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Researchers at Trend Micro reported the first stirrings of Conficker.C on Wednesday, when they noticed a new file show up in the temporary director of a number of test machines they'd infected with the worm. The rogue anti-virus software, however, was not the only piece of rubbish to be sent to Conficker infected systems this week. In its bi-annual security report released this week, Microsoft cited rogue anti-virus as one of the most prolific and fastest-growing threats facing Windows users today. Many affiliates were making six-figure paychecks each month distributing this worthless software by various means, all of them extremely sneaky if not downright illegal. As I noted last month, this was a site where distributors of rogue anti-virus products would go for the latest programs and links to the latest download locations. The first version of Conficker contained within its genetic makeup instructions telling infected systems to visit a site called. This development adds an interesting wrinkle. Of course, this service comes at a price - $49.95." Kaspersky reports that the rogue anti-virus product is being downloaded from a Web server in Ukraine. Today, however, that mystery evaporated, as anti-virus companies reported seeing Conficker systems being updated with SpywareProtect2009, a so-called "scareware" product that uses fake security alerts to frighten consumers into paying for bogus computer security software.Īccording to Kaspersky Labs, once the scareware is downloaded, the victim will see the usual warnings, "which naturally asks if you want to remove the threats it's 'detected'. Since its debut late last year, the collection of hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of systems sick with Conficker has somewhat baffled security researchers, who are accustomed to seeing such massive networks being used for money-making criminal activities, such as relaying junk e-mail. Security experts nervously watching computers infested with the prolific Conficker computer worm say they have begun seeing infected hosts downloading additional software, including a new rogue anti-virus product.