April 1 Conficker virus
Here comes April Fool Day, this Coming April 1 is a day to watch for us web users, I was curious enough for this day somehow and i have dedicated one computer for this one because of the conficker c thing. It was actually the third variant of the worms win32: conficker that hit the net in the web sometime in january. I hope i could soon extract and obtain the code and make a study of it. "Sabi ng mga Friends ko" this worm will activate at the same time all infected computer at the same time come April 1,2009..
All infected computers will come under the control of a master computer located somewhere across the web,as expected i assume all slave computer will become denial of service attack pawns, steal personal information, wipe your data drives, malware pop-ups and anything is possible. This is what is called a Botnet, in which computers are controlled remotely to spread the virus ,launch spam e-mail or even attack and shut down websites.
Microsoft has even posted a $250,000 reward for the capture of the virus author, but up to now they failed to catch that person.
Initially once infected, the worm soft penetrated into the code of a computer and blocks security updates which could remove it and when activated.
Some noble ideas to make fun of this one is to have an patch that will force the clock to jump from March 31st to April 2nd, and then when the computer reads April 3rd, It will reset to the normal date “April 2nd”! But i think the author was clever enough that he would have had it launch for any day after April 1st.
So will just wait and see and what happen next..
All infected computers will come under the control of a master computer located somewhere across the web,as expected i assume all slave computer will become denial of service attack pawns, steal personal information, wipe your data drives, malware pop-ups and anything is possible. This is what is called a Botnet, in which computers are controlled remotely to spread the virus ,launch spam e-mail or even attack and shut down websites.
Microsoft has even posted a $250,000 reward for the capture of the virus author, but up to now they failed to catch that person.
Initially once infected, the worm soft penetrated into the code of a computer and blocks security updates which could remove it and when activated.Some noble ideas to make fun of this one is to have an patch that will force the clock to jump from March 31st to April 2nd, and then when the computer reads April 3rd, It will reset to the normal date “April 2nd”! But i think the author was clever enough that he would have had it launch for any day after April 1st.
So will just wait and see and what happen next..
