Gaming Strong Warning

[x-mah-D]

I'd like to warn my fellow tempers that theres a rouge virus on the rise

Quote from WIkipedia

Upon infection, the worm saves a copy of its DLL form to a random filename in the Windows system folder, then arranges to load itself thereafter at boot as a system service with a randomly generated name.

The worm then resets System Restore points and disables a number of system services such as Windows Automatic Update, Windows Security Center, Windows Defender and Windows Error Reporting.[11] Processes matching a predefined list of antiviral, diagnostic or system patching tools are watched for and terminated.

Yes it sounds like an ordinary virus, but , but it is ment to activate on infected computers via ports 1024 and 10000.
Its unknown what it could do it could potentially catastrophic.

More info

* Variants A and B exploit a vulnerability in the Server Service on Windows computers, in which an already-infected source computer uses a specially-crafted remote procedure call request to force a buffer overflow and execute shellcode on the target computer.[8] On the source computer, the worm runs an HTTP server on a port between 1024 and 10000; the target shellcode connects back to this HTTP server to download a copy of the worm in DLL form, which it then runs as a service via svchost.exe.[4]
* Variant B can remotely execute copies of itself through the ADMIN$ share on computers visible over NetBIOS. If the share is password-protected, it will attempt a brute force dictionary attack, potentially generating large amounts of network traffic.[9]
* Variant B places a copy of itself on any attached removable media (such as USB flash drives), from which it can then infect new hosts through the Windows AutoRun mechanism.[4]

As for me im not bothered which antivirus and i will be on a linux live cd if i need to, untill the news says clear.
Each and everyone knows it could be a hoax but heed this warning, as it awaits commands from mother, it could do anything possibly overclock your pc aka blow the shit out of your cpu.
Its spread thought removable data of such.

Another flaw in windows
Linux FTW

Although the origin of the name "conficker" is not known with certainty, Internet specialists and others have speculated that it is a German portmanteau fusing the term "configure" with "fick", the German equivalent of fuck.[5] Microsoft analyst Joshua Phillips describes "conficker" as a rearrangement of portions of the domain name 'trafficconverter.biz'

Lols

QUOTE

On October 15, 2008, Microsoft released a patch (MS08-067) to fix the vulnerability.[34] It should be noted that this patch was released prior to the creation and release of the Conficker worm. Removal tools are available from Microsoft,[35] BitDefender,[36] Enigma Software,[37] ESET,[38] F-Secure,[39] Symantec,[40] Sophos,[41] and Kaspersky Lab,[42] while McAfee and AVG can remove it with an on-demand scan.[43][44] While Microsoft has released patches for the later Windows XP Service Packs 2 and 3 and Windows 2000 SP4 and Vista, it has not released any patch for Windows XP Service Pack 1 or earlier versions (excluding Windows 2000 SP4), as the support period for these service packs has expired. Since the virus can spread via USB drives that trigger AutoRun, disabling the AutoRun feature for external media (through modifying the Windows Registry) is recommended.[45] However the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team describes Microsoft's guidelines on disabling Autorun as being "not fully effective," and they provide their own guides.[46] Microsoft has released a removal guide for the worm via the Microsoft website.[47]

OK.

Good luck

%99.9 Info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker

 

[MicShadow]

This a massively blown out of proportion virus. How it got into so many computers is pretty good at showing poor security practice these days

It seems like a pretty standard virus to me, just a little better at the initial infection.
Anyway ill eat my words come tomorrow if it does big things

 

[Lee79]

McAfee released a handy little scan and remove program for this yesterday if anyone is interested it can be download here http://www.majorgeeks.com/McAfee_AVERT_Sti...ker__d6157.html.

 

[playallday]

Don't think I have it. I've been a good boy, haven't downloaded anything, have my software and hardware firewall on and my virus scanner on.