Is Your Network Prepared?

poltergeisty · #1 (**permalink**) 03-31-2009, 01:10 PM

Beware Conficker worm come April 1 : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech

Protecting Against the Rampant Conficker Worm - PC World

..And this is yet another reason why I use OpenDNS.

OpenDNS Blog » Worried about Conficker on April 1? Setting up OpenDNS can protect your network.

poltergeisty · #2 (**permalink**) 03-31-2009, 01:15 PM

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radioaustralia · #3 (**permalink**) 04-08-2009, 09:57 AM

Did anything ever eventuate out of this alleged worm? There was so much hype over it but I've heard nothing since...

Thayne · #4 (**permalink**) 04-08-2009, 02:17 PM

As I understand, there are a lot of infected 'puters, if the command is given to "call home" we shall see.

n5ims · #5 (**permalink**) 04-08-2009, 04:51 PM

The latest thought is that the 4/1/09 date was put into the code in a way to be so easily identified as an April Fool's joke. The real trigger will be some times later after the 4/1 attention has gone away.

moonbounce · #6 (**permalink**) 04-08-2009, 06:50 PM

I am running Avast anti virus and it is conficker ready according to Avast and it is a free virus scanning program (as I am sure most of you are aware) .

poltergeisty · #7 (**permalink**) 04-08-2009, 08:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by radioaustralia

Did anything ever eventuate out of this alleged worm? There was so much hype over it but I've heard nothing since...

http://www.radioreference.com/forums...conficker.html

Summary... An Analysis of Conficker C

bezking · #8 (**permalink**) 04-10-2009, 12:56 PM

Now that Conficker has "activated," my enterprise network (250 workstations and 45 servers onsite and some more in colo) seems to have held up. All the servers have Symantec and the workstations have Symantec Endpoint Protection as well. This is in addition to heavy restriction with Group Policy.

Folks, what you need to remember is that the vulnerability that Conficker exploits was patched by Microsoft in October (MS08-067). Anybody with automatic updates or decent AV software should be very well protected.