Conficker worm which starts affect the most of the PC on April 1. Microsoft says that conficker worm is scheduled to do its vulnerability attack on April 1. If the worm is sitting in your PC worm can take over the control of your system.
Microsoft says : The vulnerability could allow an anonymous attacker to successfully take full control of a vulnerable system through a network-based attack. If you are updating your anti virus software regularly then your anti virus software will protect your pc from vulnerable attack. If you are not updating your PC regularly then the vulnerability may take control your system.
This vulnerability attacks Windows Server service used by Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008.
If your computer is infected with this worm, you may not experience any symptoms, or you may experience any of the following symptoms:
- Account lockout policies are being tripped.
- Automatic Updates, Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS),
- Windows Defender, and Error Reporting Services are disabled.
- Domain controllers respond slowly to client requests.
- The network is congested.
- Various security-related Web sites cannot be accessed.
To protect your PC install conficker remover
Microsoft released a security update MS08-067 to resolve this vulnerability and some of the anti virus software companies also released conficker removal tool.
Download Conficker Removal Tool
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