Conficker worm disables security applications and blocks many security related websites. This feature alone is quite dangerous because compromised machine becomes vulnerable for various cyber attacks. However, the main goal of the worm is to join computers into a giant botnet. Since a machine infected with Conficker is unprotected, it can be infected with other malwares. This can lead to stolen information and other problems. Zombie networks are usually employed to do different jobs: they might be used to send spam, to do DDoS attacks and to cause similar troubles. Once a computer is infected with Downadup a.k.a. Conficker, it can be used for all these things any time.
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Conficker.C is distributed very effectively through the local networks and removable memory. If your computer belongs to any local network, your chances to be infected are increasing in direct proportion to the number of computers in that network. That is to say that Conficker.C, unlike adware, is hardly detectable without special program, and Conficker.C removal may be problematic, because the program may replicate itself and hide the copies at various locations. It is rather possible to assess your chances to be infected, but not to detect Conficker.C.
However, the trojan presence may be established, if the trojan has already hijacked the browser and blocked all the websites and / or disabled legitimate programs, especially security tools, and / or disabled Windows Installer so that you cannot install new programs, hence you cannot install any antivirus as well.
Conficker.C, aka Worm:Win32/Conficker.D, W32/Confick-G, and Trojan.Win32.Pakes.ngs, is a brand new modified version of the horrible Conficker worm which caused PC users’ lots of headaches since being spotted in late 2008. Conficker.C is scheduled to attack on April 1st. Conficker.C will have the ability to perform many damaging acts to your computer. It will try to disable your Windows Automatic Update and stop you from accessing Windows Security Center. Conficker.C will prevent you from restarting in Safe Mode and delete all your system restore points.
Security experts have discovered a security hole within the coding that commands Conficker Worm. This discovery may be the light at the end of the tunnel for those who worry that Conficker.C may be a devastating and an uncontrollable worm infection, infecting millions of computers all over the world. You may ask, what is this special discovery and how will it ease the worry of Conficker.C?
The new discovery, that could make it easier to isolate Conficker infected systems, is not being heavily emphasized because it could give criminals a way to secretly hijack millions of computers. Security researchers and even the Conficker Cabal, a group of anti-worm researchers, are aware that exploiting too much information about discovered lapses or vulnerabilities within the Conficker coding could give the creators or hackers a new alternative to making Conficker or a newer worm infection even more devastating.
