Beware of the Latest Windows Worm: Known as Conficker, Kido, or Downadup
By Wilson • Jan 22nd, 2009 • Category: Mobile Computer NewsThe Windows worm known as Conficker, Kido or Downadup is causing lots of trouble to Windows OS users these days. The worm has already infected more than nine million computers to date and the worst thing is that it can allow the hackers and spammers to access the infected system’s files and trace all their Internet activities.
Cyber criminals can use this worm to remotely get hold of an infected PC connected to the network. The whole process is so transparent that the user cannot identify this, unless he gets to know that his files are automatically deleted or the installed applications are behaving abnormally. This worm also allows the hackers to crack the sensitive information. It can tell out your passwords, credit card numbers entered on the sites, bank account number and much more. In no time the worm can even make you bankrupt and possesses enough potential to re-route the web traffic for any disguise criminal activity.
Kido basically takes the advantage of the Windows Operating System’s vulnerability and gets deep into the kernel, system’s main files and registry. This worm is spreading at a fast pace and replicating itself on the active networks rapidly. According to a security analyst at Kaspersky Labs the worm is very intelligent and uses multiple ways to replicate. In fact, it even uses everyday and usually innocuous USB sticks, such as the Sony Micro Vault Click USM4GL, to infect other systems. Simply connecting an infected USB stick to another computer can be enough for the virus to infiltrate and seize control of the new computer system
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Perhaps this will convince Gates sufferers that Microsoft is a compost Heap of worms, and they’ll go off and install Ubuntu.
If I had any Microsoft stock I’d sell. It won’t be here next year in the same form.
A great software company can disappear just as fast as a bank
Well well, that is is contrite as you will ever get from an opensource fanatic.
Ubuntu is technically not open to such manipulations is it now? it is dead-bolt safe from exploits since it is in use in literally hundreds of financial institutions and enterprise environments bereft of afro-haired, tar-pit arm pits Ununtu zoids.
Get Ubuntu as useful as and indispensable as Microsoft, then we’ll now if she saved you from the Financial Meltin..