Microsoft Warns of Copycat Conficker Worm 86
nk497 writes "Microsoft is warning that malware writers have adapted a four-year-old virus to use features of Conficker to take advantage of Windows flaws. Other similarities between the adapted Neeris worm and Conficker are that it downloads a copy of the worm from the attacking machine using HTTP, spreads via autorun, and uses a driver to patch the TCP/IP layer of the system. It even saw a traffic jump around the first of April, when the Conficker hype peaked. But the Microsoft researchers suggested Conficker may have copied Neeris, or that they're copying each other: 'It is possible that these miscreants somehow collaborate or at least are aware of each other's "products."'"
autorunamuk (Score:2, Funny)
when will they ever get rid of that?
Microsoft wants you to have the genuine worm (Score:5, Funny)
They will shortly be releasing a tool to test your system to make sure you have the real worm and not some impostor/pirate copy of the worm. This will be an extension of the WGA program.
Miscreants! (Score:5, Funny)
Why, I very nearly dropped my monocle when I heard that the rascals might be cahoots! Perhaps they have some sort of network (a system of tubes, perhaps?) that allows them to share their diabolical plans! Fiendishly clever!
We must safeguard our computing engines! I say we must find these these rogues and hang them from the highest scaffold in the land!
Re:Uh oh (Score:3, Funny)
he viruses will try and outdo each other by doing more and more outrageous things to the victim's computer
I miss the virus's of the 90's that would randomly open and close your CD tray. They should bring that back. Slightly amusing and didn't steal personal data.