Top 20 malware programs. Conficker is on the 1st place

According to the report published today by Kaspersky Lab,it has been detected over 45 190 of unique harmful, advertising and potentially dangerous programs during last month. This digit practically does not differ from a metrics for March.

In a rating of twenty most widespread harmful programs worm Conficker known also as Downadup and Kido continues to the the leading position. By some estimations, Conficker could infect up to 20 million computers worldwide. The last days this worm has started to form the infected computers in a botnet for distribution of spam emails and spyware.
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Conficker worm is active again

As mark security experts form Symantec, Conficker step-by-step transforms thousands of infected PCs into zombie network for spam and spyware distribution. The worm loads it’s code under the name Waledac which unites the infected machines in the botnet.

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Conficker worm: new version detected

The “Kaspersky’s Labs” warns about appearance of the new version of the Conficker also known as Kido and Downadup.

Conficker has been detected in November of last year, however the peak of its activity has been on the beginning of January: for a few days the worm has infected about ten millions computers worldwide.
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Next attack of Conficker is expected on April 1st

On April, 1st worm Conficker, probably, will force not to laugh, and to cry very many Internet users.

Conficker has been detected in November of last year, however the peak of its activity was on the beginning of January: for few days the worm infected about ten millions computers worldwide. The malicious program, capable to extend in the various ways, including through removable disk drives, allows malefactors to inspect the infected computers far off.
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Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for Conficker arrest and conviction

Today, Microsoft Corp. announced a partnership with technology industry leaders and academia to implement a coordinated, global response to the Conficker (aka Downadup) worm. Together with security researchers, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and operators within the Domain Name System, Microsoft coordinated a response designed to disable domains targeted by Conficker. Microsoft also announced a $250,000 reward for information that results in the arrest and conviction of those responsible for illegally launching the Conficker malicious code on the Internet.

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OpenDNS against Conficker

OpenDNS service has learned to resist the attempts of computers infected by the Conficker worm to contact with a possible controlling domain. Thus, the use of OpenDNS will protect from evil actions of the worm, when (and if) the authors try to take advantage of built a potential super-botnet.

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Distribution of Conficker worm decreases

By estimations of the anti-virus companies, the quantity of infections with the sensational net worm actively travelling on the Internet and corporate networks of last 2-3 weeks, has reached 10 million computers. However the last some days speed of distribution of this harmful code has considerably decreased. We will remind that various variants of worm Conficker (Downadup) extend, maintaining vulnerability MS08-067 in Windows operating systems.
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Conficker infection continues

According to PandaLabs laboratory about 6 % of computers worldwide are infected by worm Conficker. Infections are already detected more than in 80 countries of the world, among which most infected – Spain, the USA, Taiwan and Brazil.

According to PandaLabs the quantity of the PCs infected with worm Conficker, continues to grow. By results of laboratory PandaLabs researches, 6 % (5,77 %) computers worldwide are infected by this type of malware.

Research of two millions computers has shown that the infection which has arisen in China, has extended now in 83 countries, and in such countries as Spain, the USA, Taiwan, Brazil, and Mexico, it is especially dangerous.

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Downadup (Conficker) has infected every 16-th computer

Computer worm Downadup, also known as Conficker and Kido, has infected at least every 16-th computer, running Windows operationg system.

According to Panda Security, six percent of Windows-computers which has been checked up by means of its anti-virus products, have appeared are infected with Downadup. It has been checked up about two millions computers from which more than 110 thousand contained Downadup. Six percent of Windows-computers infected with Downadup is a minimum.

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Conficker botnet

Super-botnet which is being built by the worm Conficker, has grown already at least to 3,5 million computers. Thus, this zombie-network in the sizes has surpassed all known till now botnets, including Storm, which, by some estimations, on peak of the development included from 500 thousand to one million computers.

Daily, taking for a basis of a mark of time from public sites like Google and Baidu, the program generates weight of sequences of the symbols similar to domain names. Using this set of the lines, the infected computer tries to contact the servers located on corresponding domains. In practice such domain can be only one — using the same algorithm, owners of a bot-network in advance register, lift on it a server and, thus, supervise all herd of zombies-computers.

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