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Romanians Find Cure For Conficker

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    When do we get a cure for whatever the Romanian 'cure' does after it removes Conficker?

    1. Re:Great by lordtoran · · Score: 0, Troll

      The cure is to remove that American 'operating system'.

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  2. It's a Trap by WallyDrinkBeer · · Score: -1, Troll

    No thanks. This is a fix from a strange company in a country that is not America. How can that be a good idea?

  3. Paranoia, the destroyer by greg1104 · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's good to see something involving Romania and security that's positive for a change. Wait, do we know where the authors of Conficker came from? Hmmmm...

  4. It can't be helped by Idiomatick · · Score: 0, Troll

    Obligatory... Here is the link to the cure

  5. Ahh, Romanian kids... by Dramacrat · · Score: 0, Troll

    Makes sense, since it's probably a Romanian who coded the darned thing... ;)

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  6. WTF!? Who cares? by Anachragnome · · Score: 0, Troll

    "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."

    I disabled all that shit, myself, intentionally. I'm serious.

    After I realized that one of the recent "hotfixes" from Microsoft installed a spyware "plugin" in Firefox, off that shit went. For good.

  7. Re:Another link to the tool by Hurricane78 · · Score: -1, Troll

    No. Because Ubuntu is the cure for Windows virii. Past, present and future.

    But you would not get it, when teached with a two by four, would ya...?

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  8. Re:Another link to the tool by Hurricane78 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your wifi was already broken before. You just couldn't notice under windows.

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  9. Re:How long before it doesn't work? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm more curious how many people would actually install any "fix" that comes from Eastern Europe.

    Maybe they could make something that pops up in my browser and tells me that I've got the Cornflicker Virus and then offers to fix it for me if I just click "Continue".

    And maybe I'll just forget the whole thing. So what if my machine is infected. I've got four cores going at once, so there's plenty of cycles to go around.

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