Tech Tips, Technology - Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:16 - 1 Comment

Protect Yourself Today against the Conficker Virus

Do you have a PC and are currently using a Windows OS (Operating System), most notably XP or Vista?

Then YOU need to pay close attention to what experts are saying about the Conficker Virus which they think will disrupt computers tomorrow on April Fool’s day, if not before.

Experts are most worried about the ‘C’ variant of Conficker worm, aka Downadup or Kido, which infects Windows machines (XP and Vista) and disables them to get security updates or patches from Microsoft and from other vendors. The ‘B’ variant of the Conficker worm was causing problems in January of this year and by February, it had affected over 9 million Windows users worldwide. Microsoft itself had even announced to pay reward of $250,000 to any one who knows any information about the hackers responsible for this. Conficker in general has been known to attack vulnerabilities in all OS, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 Beta and Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta. The C variant seems to be mostly manifested in XP and Vista.

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