Conflicker Checker
Contrary to some of the stories circulating in the more excitable sections of the media millions of PCs didn’t suddenly blow up following the much-anticipated reactivation of the Conflicker C virus on April 1st. In fact, at the time of writing nothing much seemed to have happened and the world moved on to more important matters. Nevertheless, this virus, and its ilk do present an ongoing threat, especially for PC owners who do not keep their security software and Windows Updates current. By the way, if you have any concerns about Conflicker C and malware in general and you think your PC may be infected I wouldn’t ask Google. I typed in ‘Conflicker C Removal’ a couple of days ago and the first three hits all led to websites carrying the virus!
If you have been lax with your security updates then your best bet is to download the free Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool, which scans your PC for Conflicker and a raft of other nasties, but in the end the best way to avoid becoming infected is to install a decent anti-virus program and regularly sweep your PC with cleaners like AdAware, A-Squared and Spybot.
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Doug on 14 Apr 2009 at 12:36 pm #
It’s Conficker, not Conflicker – and it did activate not too long ago – as many analysts predicted it would. There was too much attention on it on April 1st so the controllers of the worm waited up until a few days ago and activated the virus. It’s downloading heavily encrypted files to infected computers, which (again) are so tightly packed and encrypted it is still yet to be seen what the intentions of it are.