Posts Tagged Security

Today, on April 1st the Confiker.C  virus was to go live and get code from one of it’s host sites. As of the time this was posted nothing seems to be happening. Confiker.C is the 3 version of a self replicating worm that has infected millions of PC’s around the world. The goals and origins of the worm are still unknown. But there has been much speculation about what might happen. Take a look at the Wikipedia entry for more info. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker. Microsoft released a patch through their Malicious Software Removal Tool and many 3rd party Anti-Virus companies have released their own patch. I suggest you backup your data and disable auto-run on Windows machines.  http://features.engadget.com/2004/06/29/how-to-tuesday-disable-autorun-on-windows/