Already Conficker infection in Indonesia Thousands of Computers January 28, 2009
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Conficker virus attacks the restive world after infection 9 million computers in the two sunday, also threatening computer users in Indonesia. Spreading so quickly that the number of infected computers that doubled in a short time.
Local company and provider of antivirus solutions Vaksincom safety record of the case only swell into thousands of cases of tens of thousands of computers infected with Conficker until mid-January 2009. This is not separated from Conficker ability to attack other computers in the same network provider.
“Isn’T which is in the computer network, a standalone computer using an internet connection from a particular provider is also threatened by ulah Conficker,” the report Vaksincom. Conficker or the spread of the virus which is also known by the name W32/Conficker, W32/Downupad or W32/Kido assessed at this time has reached a worrying level.
The virus is not yet known foreign origin is smart enough and have the ability to update itself and has a very special payload difficult to make the antivirus tools exterminator himself. Therefore, if the virus still be naughty in the ordinary. If the network computer in the office has been infected, the virus difficult to be liquidated.
Entering the year 2009, the more sophisticated variants Conficker. While this is a new virus variants appear to have a target of attacks Windows XP, Vista, Windows Server (all versions) and even Windows 7 Beta version is still vulnerable on this virus attack. Norman Security Suite detect new virus variants as W32/Conficker.DV, while other antivirus detects as Win32.Kido.CG (Kaspersky), W32.Downadup.B (Symantec), W32.Downadup.AL (F-Secure), W32 . Conficker.B (Microsoft), W32.Conficke rA (CA, Sophos and McAfee), Worm_Downad.AD (Trend Micro) and W32/Conficker.C (Panda).
Source: Kompas
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