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Information about Conficker

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Here’s an illustration of how the Conficker worm works

Conficker is a collection of related malware strains typically described as a worm due to its ability to self-propagate through a network.  In other words, in contrast to a typical virus, Conficker does not necessarily need a user to do anything such as click on an infected file to compromise a system.  There are currently three known variants of Conficker (also called Downadup by some anti-malware vendors) and each of them can propagate through a number of mechanisms, the most common is by exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows.  This vulnerability can be fixed by applying a patch from Microsoft that was released last November (link below).

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