Conficker, also known as Downup, Downandup, Conflicker, and Kido, is a computer worm that surfaced November 21st, 2008 with Conficker.A and targets the Microsoft Windows operating system. The worm exploits a known vulnerability (MS08-067) in the Windows Server service used by Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7 Beta. The latest variant (Conficker.C) will begin checking for a payload to download on March 31st, 2009. Conficker.A and Conficker.B variants continue to check for payloads each with a distinct domain generation algorithm.
Click & Check to see if you are infected: http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/infection_test/cfeyechart.html(thanks to Joe Stewart from SecureWorks for his awesome work)
SCF also provide you a list of Conficker Removal Tools:Microsoft MSRT: http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspxSymantec: http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2009-011316-0247-99McAfee: http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ESET: http://download.eset.com/special/EConfickerRemover.exeBitDefender: http://www.bdtools.net/Kaspersky: http://data2.kaspersky-labs.com:8080/special/KidoKiller_v3.3.3.zipTrendMicro: http://www.trendmicro.com/download/dcs.aspSunbelt: http://www.sunbeltsecurity.com/DownLoads.aspx(
*Note that if you cannot get to one or more of these, you might be infected with conficker or any of the other many malicious programs out there. Try another, at the time of this writing, not all of these are blocked by conficker and any of them will work.)
For additional help, please visit SCF "PC Help Center": http://scforum.info/index.php?action=forum