Conficker KIDO

 Malicious program named Kido (Conficker) or Downadup latest version has spread. Worm is spelled out very complicated. Antivirus company Kaspersky revealed that in the written statement received Thursday (04/02/2009). "Kido download updates for itself from some web site addresses are constantly changing. Kido use the local network as an additional lane to obtain updates. Encryption is an excellent add to the complexity of Kido. Kido even have a mechanism to turn off security features," said a description of Kaspersky.

Currently Kido (Conficker) has spread to about 5-6 million computers. Kido was spreading through the slit shells MS08-067 which was, according to Kaspersky, still quite a lot of users who have not patched this vulnerability. Kido updates performed in March and began its active new system on 1 April 2009 Kido was judged more difficult. What does Kido, by accepting commands over the domain 50 000 random per day, making the criminal action is difficult to predict.

In fact, the victim's computer network Kido Downadup alias can be used to perform Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS). In addition, the botnet can be used to perform action to spread spam and data theft. Kaspersky Lab claims its latest products can be used to prevent all kinds of variants of existing Kido. (Kilasberita.com / asd / DTC)

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