A windows worm named Conficker or Downadup or Kido (as called by various anti-virus vendors) which targets unpatched networks and poor passwords has been reported to have affected 2.4 million machines to over 8.9 million during the last four days by a Finnish anti-virus maker F-Secure.The worm spreads via a vulnerability due to RPC flaw that Microsoft patched in October 2008. Once on a machine, it sets up an HTTP server and resets a machine's System Restore point to stop administrators deleting it.
This new worm which belongs to the usual Trojan family, downloads new files from their own malware server and generates hundreds of random domain names to scan for updates.
The numbers given by F-Secure has been criticized by many other vendors and has made F-Secure to explain its method of calculating the size of the malware's breakup. Servers in China, Brazil and Russia seems to have been affected most.
And I have no sympathy for them if they DO get infected, cos I have advised them against turning AU off!
And I have no sympathy for them if they DO get infected, cos I have advised them against turning AU off!
My Brother is similar. Though I'm fairly sure he does have WAU turned on, everytime I visit he has no virus protection. He's suffered a catastrophic infection before, but there's no telling him. There's really no excuse with the number of free scanners these days.
Automatic updates are disabled to stop updates breaking critical progams.
Automatic updates are disabled to stop updates breaking critical progams.
maybe those programs are critically flawed?
At the network i run we use WSUS, so my computers are all updated, i have YET to see a corp network with no automatic updates from server 2003.
Then again unless your an it admin in one of the schools that use classmaster i bid your network farewell
My predecessor destoryed the WSUS on our network prior to me joining the company and management told me to hold of a new WSUS until we get other projects done....
Et Volia... infected. Took 3 days to clean the bloody thing up. What a nightmare!
I remember the day that patch came out. I updated all my machines that day. I called my parents, my sister, and my friends and told them all about the update and to apply it immediately.
They usualy call this a case of PEBKAC
Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
IRQL error is generally a device driver that kicks the bucked due to bad updating from windows updates. Inaccessible_boot_device generally Sata/IDE driver error/Had HDD. Unknown error is generally unknown. I see probaly 1 in 20 pcs bluescreen due to windows updates. Generally a good reboot or roll back on effected drivers fixes the issue. Nothing serious.
Another response is 'I don't want my computer telling me to do things.', blah blah blah.
In short, they're being so naive they're gonna be buggered.
The problem is that they don't let the user have ANY control over the computer. So even if I logged on I cannot update the computer or scan for viruses. Still uses internet explorer 6 too, which annoys me!
Poor old MOD.
Commenting has either been disabled on this article or you are not logged in. Click here to login or register, its free!
Note: Anonymous commenting is disabled in order to keep the quality of responses to a high standard.