The third version of the virus threatens to turn Conficker today

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The third version of the virus-Conficker also known as Downadup-threatening activity from today suspicions that it is a hoax according to the day chosen, April 1 is the date on which the countries Anglo-Saxons celebrated the Holy Innocents.

However, experts recommend not to lower its guard before the improved version of a malicious code that has already infected your Windows system with more than 10 million computers around the world. Such is the level of infection from this worm, which Microsoft has offered a reward of $ 250,000 for the cracker who managed to hunt for their creation.

Conficker is characterized as a trojan capable of downloading, ie, scans thousands of websites in search of updates to download other malware on the computer where it is installed. So far, the scan rate was 250 domains per day, but the new version with the figures shoot up to 50,000 sites, a fact that hampers the elimination of this program.

The aim of the worm is to create a major-zombie botnets-networks of computers, where the user does not know that your equipment is being used from a remote server for massive Google search or connect to a site on-line games. Also, affected systems may face collapse in the Internet service due to the high number of connections that other people are doing at the expense of their private network.

Another of the resistance offered by the new worm is its ability to wriggle out of the antivirus installed on computers where it is housed, in addition to block any attempt to update both the operating system's own antivirus. In addition, technicians emphasize that simple passwords are usually a white Conficker because it can decode.

According to the blog Infospyware expert on cyber threats, Marcelo Rivero, the incidence of other versions of Conficker in home networking is really low, "but in any case recommended to have a current antivirus, keep Windows up to date and use a firewall.

In addition, advises not to use the administrator account as the main strengthening passwords and disable the automatic removable devices (UBS, hard drives or mp3). Furthermore, it suggests to install the patch MS08-067, an urgent solution that Microsoft launched last October to address the vulnerability of Windows that takes advantage of the virus.

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