Romanians Find Cure For Conficker

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 12, 2009 @06:11PM from the cheer-goes-up dept.

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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could have done with this yesterday... by advocate_one · 2009-03-12 18:54 · Score: 5, Interesting

yesterday I was forced to dust off and nuke a Vista laptop from orbit... (afer using Knoppix to rescue the data first)
We need a removal tool that can be run from a safe Linux environment (ie boot using a live disk etc., then run the tool from a USB drive)... not running it from inside windows where the Conficker is already running

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