Term Of The Day – Conficker !!

Conficker is a virus worm , that is directed to infect systems with  Microsoft Windows 2000 / 7/8 , etc. Operating system . This was first detected in 2003 , when it affected the French Navy computer network to such extents that it had to ground several of it’s fleet for being unable to download flight data . Since then , Conficker has appeared and re-appeared in over 200 countries , each time more powerful with added malware protection tools implanted in itself .

The virus’s unknown authors are believed to be tracking anti-malware websites and law enforcement authorities , and to be plugging the virus’ loopholes . Ever Since , five variants of Conficker have appeared , each powerful than the later .

Possible effects of Conficker on an infested system are :

• Modification of System settings .
•  Killing anti-malware software .
• Termination / disablement of windows service such as Firewall , Defender , etc .
• Resetting system restore points .
• Deleting Back-up
• Checking for internet connectivity and downloading arbitrary files
• System used as a peer in seeding further the current or higher Conficker brethen .  

Check out if your system is affected by the malware here !!