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."

Comments

Sorry to be a pedantic ass but...

[AbRASiON]

Is the correct term "cure" for removing a software virus?
The first 10 seconds after reading this I was trying to figure out "what's the conficker virus, who is it killing?" etc.

I would've thought fix / solution / tool / patch / antivirus routine would be better than 'cure'

I could be wrong though, I've been using PC's for 18years now and despite plenty of piracy I've never had a virus, so I've never had to cure one.

Re:Another link to the tool

[lordtoran]

Excellent analogy, because - who wouldn't take herpes over AIDS any day? The former may suck a bit sometimes, but the latter will fuck up your whole life.