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Protecting Against Conficker-C

Posted by Paul on Mar 31, 2009 in Blog | 0 comments

Let’s cut to the chase. Conficker-C is a worm-type virus that is infecting Windows XP and Vista machines all over the Internet. It is the newest strain of Conficker worms (you guessed it: Conficker-A and -B exist as well) and is supposed to be especially nasty. What’s the sudden hype with Conficker? The reason why this strain of the virus is so highly publicized in the news is because it was only recently discovered, and is also somewhat mysterious. The worm itself has already infected millions of machines on the Internet, but none of them are showing symptoms. This is because it...