Romanians Find Cure For Conficker

mask.of.sanity writes "BitDefender has released what it claims is the first vaccination tool to remove the notorious Conficker virus that infected some 9 million Windows machines in about three months. The worm, also known as Downadup, exploits a bug in the Windows Server service used by Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008. It spreads primarily through a buffer overflow vulnerability in Windows Server Service where it disables the operating system update service, security center, including Windows Defender, and error reporting. The Romanian security vendor said its removal tool will delete all versions of Downadup and will not be detected by the virus."

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Romania

[psergiu]

In case you don't know where Romania is, here's a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itidLk5Dd3k

Please tag story as romaniaftw

Romulans.

[Twide]

Well, usually the Romulans keep to themselves instead of sharing all this information, for all we know, it could be them that started it!

Something must be up in the Star Empire.

*Appends To Trek Journal*

Re:Another link to the tool

[thatskinnyguy]

I used that same tool on another virus. Haven't had an issue since!

Re:It can't be helped

[JazzLad]

No, this is The Cure

Re:It can't be helped

[dbIII]

Now that's just madness.

Re:It can't be helped

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear god... then what was the disease?

Oh right. Seventies suburbia. It was worth chewing a leg off.

Re:Another link to the tool

[Computershack]

I used that same tool on another virus. Haven't had an issue since!

I found that non of my games would work and my wifi is now broken too.

Re:How long before it doesn't work?

[Anonymous Coward]

Congratulations. You have successfully made yourself look racist, shortsighted, ignorant and apathetic all in one single posting on Slashdot. Maybe next time you can shoot for doing it in just two sentences.