Is your computer infected with the virus Conficker (aka Kido or Downadup)?  If yes, whether you have used the popular anti-virus, but can not afford Conficker thoroughly cleaned with? No sad especially disappointed. Media PC is now, as the market-leader in computer magazines, the PCMAV Express Conficker for that at this time is * the only * special Conficker superior antivirus in the world capable of providing complete solutions in the virus.  And this proves that antivirus PCMAV is always the pride of Indonesia, although the virus is faced by foreign-nan sophisticated.

NOTE: Due to the complexity of handling Conficker this virus, mainly due to the implementation of rootkit technology is a relatively neat and “beautiful”, scan engine architecture PCMAV 2.0 standards that are not designed and are not prepared to handle new types of virus such as this. Therefore why PCMAV Express for this Conficker present pending the rising PC Media magazine 05/2009 which will load the latest release PCMAV.

Unlike the other anti-virus, PCMAV for Conficker Express is designed specifically for the special and can identify 100% accurately and thoroughly eradicate Conficker to the “radical”, even though this virus has antidebugging techniques, anti-VM, double-layer and obfuscated code rootkit (invisible), which include sophisticated and complex. (more…)

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Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for Conficker arrest and conviction.

REDMOND, Wash. – Feb. 12, 2009 - 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.

“As part of Microsoft’s ongoing security efforts, we constantly look for ways to use a diverse set of tools and develop methodologies to protect our customers,” said George Stathakopoulos, general manager of the Trustworthy Computing Group at Microsoft. “By combining our expertise with that of the broader community we can expand the boundaries of defense to better protect people worldwide.”

As cyberthreats have rapidly evolved, a greater level of industry coordination and new tactics for communication and threat mitigation are required. To optimize the multiple initiatives being employed across the security industry and within academia, Microsoft helped unify these broad efforts to implement a community-based defense to disrupt the spread of Conficker. (more…)

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The Conficker worm is back with a vengeance, infecting over one million systems in the past 24 hours. The refined version of this malware scans networks for weakly protected machines and actively attempts to spread itself via USB thumb drives. Neither feature was present in the original version, and so far, the attack is working.

It has been over a month since we heard much about Conficker, but the worm has reappeared with a vengeance over the past seven days. According to Finnish security company F-Secure, more than one million PCs have been infected with the worm (also known as Kido or Downadup) in the past 24 hours, with a total of 3.52 million machines infected worldwide. According to F-Secure, that 3.52 million is a conservative estimate.

The problem isn’t so much with the older version of Conficker (now known as Conficker.A) but with a new flavor, dubbed Conficker.B. Ars spoke with Roger Halbheer, Chief Security Advisor of Microsoft’s EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa); he’s been monitoring (and writing) about the current spread of infections. The skyrocketing infection rate is actually being caused by several factors; Roger describes Conficker.B as a “beast,” and Microsoft has built the following diagram to demonstrate how the worm functions. (more…)

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