Researchers at SRI international believe that a computer virus dubbed Conficker C is doing the rounds.Apparently,there are some 6-15 million computers out there running Windows which are infected with this malicious virus.Come April 1, the virus is set to unleash it’s fiery power.

They say

” We present an analysis of Conficker Variant C, which emerged on the Internet at roughly 6 p.m. (PST) on 4 March 2009. This variant incorporates significant new functionality, including a new domain generation algorithm and a new peer-to-peer file sharing service. Absent from our discussion has been any reference to the well-known attack propagation vectors (RCP buffer overflow, USB, and NetBios Scans) that have allowed C’s predecessors to saturate so much of the Internet. Although not present in C, these attack propagation services are but one peer upload away from any C infected host, and may appear at any time. C is, in fact, a robust and secure distribution utility for distributing malicious content and binaries to millions of computers across the Internet. This utility incorporates a potent arsenal of methods to defend itself from security products, updates, and diagnosis tools. It further demonstrates the rapid development pace at which Conficker’s authors are maintaining their current foothold on a large number of Internet-connected hosts. Further, if organized into a coordinated offensive weapon, this multimillion-node botnet poses a serious and dire threat to the Internet.

Our report represents one of many Conficker analysis studies going on throughout the whitehat community, and we are in direct contact with numerous groups that will produce additional details, and will help clarify errors that exist in this report. This report is a living document, and we will update it regularly, as our understanding of variant C continues to grow. “

Well, all they say is that it is extremely self protective and dangerous to the host.The C variant apparently managed to upgrade itself over the network, and disables security anti-virus software.

Windows users,beware.

The link to the report is here.

If my system is still alive, i’ll have my next post then.

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The Indian Government’s hunt for a new unique, culturally and historically significant symbol for the India Rupee(Rs.) has come to this.

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The point which i don’t understand is how the new symbol must be original and still has to be in the Indian National Language Script!!!!

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HELLO WORLD !

No,this is not a blog that is going to teach u programming in 8 weeks.Neither is this blog going to give u tips and tricks about WINDOWS vista.

It’s just my way of saying HELLO !!!

A year ago, i was reading a blog post titled ‘10 reasons why u should blog ‘.I was not impressed by any of the reasons he suggested.But, over the year, i was/am very impressed by the way how this whole blogs and the posts system works. This blog is just a way for me to rant about the issues i feel are important in my life and others life.It took me quite some time(evident by those fancy buttons on the right) and some literature survey( as the engineers would call it) to start this one eventhough this is not first blog.Nevertheless , it’s on! Thanks to all my friends for inspiring me.