FAQ: Conficker time bomb ticks, but don't expect boom

By Elinor Mills, ZDNet News There’s been lots of hype about the fact that the latest variant of the Conficker worm is set to start communicating with other computers on the Internet on April 1 – like an April Fool’s Day time bomb with some mysterious payload. To help clear up some of the confusio...

Honeynet Project finds way to fingerprint Conficker infections

Just days ahead of an April 1st activation date for the Conficker worm, a pair of security researchers from the Honeynet Project have scored a major breakthrough, finding a way to remotely and anonymously fingerprint the malware on infected networks. Now, with the help of Dan Kaminsky and Rich...

Trojan/Backdoor Detection - Conficker Detection

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Trojan/Backdoor Detection - Conficker Detection

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Conficker Worm Detection (uncredentialed check)

The remote host seems to be infected by the Conficker worm. This worm has several capabilities which allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote operating system. The remote host might also be attempting to propagate the worm to third party hosts. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

There will be no April 1st Conficker outbreak

By Joe Stewart, SecureWorks If you’ve been reading any news at all on the Internet in the past week, you’ve probably heard that Conficker Armageddon is approaching, and it’s scheduled for April 1st, only a few days from now. The truth is, there will be no April 1st outbreak, despite what some of...

FAQ: Conficker and April 1st

Our friends at F-Secure have put together a very valuable FAQ f-secure.com on the Conficker worm to help strip away the hype around the April 1st date. It’s a must read...

Countdown to Conficker's April 1st climax

By Byron Acohido, LastWatchdog.com Two schools of thought exist about what the Conficker worm will do come the wee hours of April 1, 2009, GMT. Some experts, like WinPatrol creator Bill Pytlovany, are sensing that the worm’s controllers will run circles lastwatchdog.com around the Microsoft-led...

Conficker worm continues to evolve, confound researchers

The Conficker worm has been wreaking havoc on the Internet for several months now, and despite the concerted efforts of dozens of security organizations around the world, it is showing no signs of fading. A new analysis of Conficker by SRI International shows that the worm’s authors have added...

Southwest Airlines site in Conficker's crosshairs

The resilient Conficker worm has spent the last few months wreaking havoc on millions of infected PCs around the world, and it now looks like the worm is set to potentially cause some trouble for Southwest Airlines as well. Computerworld is reporting that the infected machines will attempt to...

Patch for Windows AutoRun problem released

More than a month after the US-CERT alerted users to the problems with the instructions for disabling the AutoRun capability in Windows, Microsoft has released a fix for the AutoRun problem. The guidance that Microsoft had given users previously didn’t completely disable the feature, which is use...

Vulnerability in Server Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (958644)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS08-067. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only Based...

Server Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (958644)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS08-067. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: secpodms08-067900055.nasl 5344 2017-02-18 17:43:17Z cfi $ Description: Server Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability 958644 Authors: Chandan S Copyright:...

Server Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (958644)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS08-067. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...