Remember Conficker, the worm that wouldn’t have been as devastating as it has been had people just kept their machines up to date? Even though the critical patch had already been released way before Conficker started its rampage, the worm became one of the worst infections to date. A Romanian company has found a cure for the worm.
Romanian security company BitDefender has worked on a removal tool for Conficker, and finally reached their goal. The company says the worm is so difficult to remove because it contains its own built-in update mechanism.
“BitDefender Labs has been seeing an increase in worms, like Downadup, that have a built-in mathematical algorithm, generating strings based on the current date,” the company says in a statement, “The worms then produce a fixed number of domain names on a daily basis and check them for updates. This makes it easy for malware writers to upgrade a worm or give it a new payload, as they only have to register one of the domains and then upload the files.”
The removal tool is easy enough, and works in both Vista and XP environments. It’s also free.
Romanians are the ones who released Conficker. BitDefender (a Romanian company) has an army of Romanian hackers who write and release computer viruses, in order to keep BitDefender in business. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a fact.
Facts are usually followed by some sort of proof…?
Of course not.
Good thing your allegations are standing on such a solid foundation of proof.
thanks for making me laugh
we romanians are all hackers in order to keep a software company in business. we’re thinking of kidnaping turists and empty them of blood to keep the dracula myth alive, so we can help holywood studios to forget about the financial crisis by releasing more stupid vampires movies based on real events.
Edited 2009-03-13 21:18 UTC
[q]thanks for making me laugh
I needed a laugh after a long hard week, this has to be one of the funniest things I have read on the Osnews forums!
: )
Edited 2009-03-13 23:11 UTC
As you might now the worm blocks your access to a big number of sites which could provide you removal tools. so…bdtools.net is THE ONLY site that can be accessed if you are infected.you run the tool there and your problem is solved.BitDefender never said they are the first to discover the worm, but the first to offer an accessible tool to help you solve the problem.
Romanians are evil..that’s why they give the remove tool for free
i wonder how can it be… there are people out there able to write such comments… incredible. The humankind hasn’t evolved as much as it should in the last 50 years…
I found the definitive cure for 99.99% of the malwares. I am using a linux desktop. Simple, free and definitive solution.
When I need windows to run some widows-only application I preferer to use wine or run windows in a virtual machine. If it becomes infected it is much easier to reinstall: I only copy one file from backup over the infected file representing the C: drive.
I concur, 100%.
🙂
There is a new site from BitDefender that contains all critical information about downadup or conficker infections. The site contains a tool for home users and also a tool for network administrators that helps deployment on workstations and starts a cleaning routine. – htttp://www.downadup.org