Conficker C ‘Doom’ Phizzles Into A Phony Sales Pitch
Joe M posted in Home Support, opinion on April 10th, 2009
This sounds like an April Fools’ joke that wound up in the cornfield.
According to Wired.com, Trend Micro has discovered the whole underlying purpose behind Conficker C.
It’s not the Apocalypse.
It’s not a hoard of locusts.
It’s not horsemen.
It’s… another phony anti-virus sales pitch, for only $49.95.
Ironic enough… It also may install other worms that are used to spam from your machine.
One of the symptoms?
A slow Windows machine. Nothing really new there.
(If I had a dime for every time I heard, “My computer has gotten really slow…”)
There are a number of removal tools out there.
Symantec has one, that is easily accesible.
With all the TV and news hype regarding the worm, you might think that the purpose of the worm is something much darker.
Actually, considering how annoying and ‘lazy’ ads have gotten, trying to sell a fake product is still somewhat of a dark venture.
The worst thing anyone can do is to pull out their wallet and give these authors encouragement.
If you think you might be infected, shut your machine down, download a removal tool on another machine.
Definitely, don’t use the machine again until you fix it.
The next item to watch for, in the news?
How many spammers or dark industrialists take the code from Conficker C, and make it ‘better,’ to produce Conficker D or Conficker E.
April 10th, 2009 at 3:28 am
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