Monday, July 13, 2009

Trend Micro detected new variant Conficker

WORM_DOWNAD.E loads over peer-to-peer functionality in accordance with the previous version. The new variant is associated with sites such as myspace.com. You should be on 3 May disable.

Trend Micro has released a new version of Conficker with the name WORM_DOWNAD.E discovered via the peer-to-peer functionality in accordance with the previous version is loaded. The new update appears to contain malicious routines. The security experts that it is a keylogger or some other program that tries to get to sensitive data.

As the global leader for information security at Trend Micro's David Perry said, it seems that the harmful from a routine. Sys component to exist, which hides behind a rootkit, and in this way disguises that the PC is infected at all. The software is highly encrypted, so the researchers have problems, analyze the malware.

In addition, the worm connects with myspace.com, msn.com, ebay.com, cnn.com and aol.com to check whether the attacked computers at all has an Internet connection. Then it deletes all the tracks, which he on the host computer has left. According to an entry in TrendLabs Malware Blog is it configured so that he is on 3 May even be disabled.

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