The Downadup/Conficker worm’s sudden surge in early 2009 forced a brutal reminder onto the Windows ecosystem: unpatched systems and lax patch management can turn ordinary desktops and servers into the backbone of a global botnet in a matter of days.
Background
Microsoft released an out‑of‑cycle...
When Microsoft issued version 12 of its Security Intelligence Report (.pdf) last month, its marketing machine had one message it wanted journalists to communicate to businesses: Conficker worm infections are a serious concern. The messaging about Conficker was extremely strong. Prior to a...
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All of this happened right after I download something my friend showed me, but I stopped the download part way through and deleted the part of the .rar file.
Kaspersky Antivirus completely fails
When I go to the Windows Update page (with IE), it says I am not an Administrator...
A reminder that the highly malicious Conficker Worm is now officially 'active' as of 1 April. So far there are no reports of any major problems caused by the worm, and systems kept up to date with this Link Removed due to 404 Error released by Microsoft back in October 2008 are protected from...