Three Million Hit By Windows Worm: Updated

[Lord_Ascendant]

Arc-351 my supercomputer is infected but I ran several sweeps of its Dalek-Upgraded security firewall. The virus is contained, I'm working on an antidote now. ETA to completion 12 hours.

 

[DigitalSushi]

The worms are getting better and better, but then again so are the people detecting, deciphering and destroying them.
To me the chances of you getting this seem quite unlikely so I'm not too bothered about it.
It would have to be some uber, super bug to be a major dent in the world of computers.

38,000 infections in China sound like a dent?

No not when there is like a bizillion computers.

a week ago the number stood at 8.9million infected computers, that figure is probably a lot more already.

 

[Night_Wolf]

Theres more to worry aobut. Aperently theres another Worm going around the US. My comp is allready suffering from serrious issues from several virus's. My anti virus software is unfortnatly unable to download due to me haveing the older obsolet version of the update disk and wont alow me to dl a patch. I'm going to have to get a new pc if mine starts to crash.

 

[antipode]

I've had to remove Conficker from a handful of work computers so far. Nothing has been as annoying as Vundo, however.

Conficker's an easy cleanup by comparison. That said, I'm still not looking forward to Wednesday...

 

[jimduckie]

gee that sucks anyone who develops a computer virus ,worm etc should be shot and pissed on this hacker shit has to stop and putting your personal info online is just asking for it and you would think with all the computers the us government has to spy on people they would figure out who is doing this

 

[cyber_andyy]

I Patched ages ago, I also am really safe with my computer AND im doing a windiows reinstall soon, so if I am infected, I won't be for long.

 

[FallenRainbows]

The worms are getting better and better, but then again so are the people detecting, deciphering and destroying them.
To me the chances of you getting this seem quite unlikely so I'm not too bothered about it.
It would have to be some uber, super bug to be a major dent in the world of computers.

38,000 infections in China sound like a dent?

No not when there is like a bizillion computers.

a week ago the number stood at 8.9million infected computers, that figure is probably a lot more already.

Now that is a dent...

 

[D0WNT0WN]

This must be the little bugger that is causing my mums PC to wig out and reboot. I completly flushed it out restarting it to the factory setting but mum says it is still wigging out.

I need to get her some new virus protection.

 

[ThaBenMan]

Scary. Don't fail me now, AVG!

 

[mokes310]

Yes Root, what DOSE it do?

 

[antipode]

is this that MS AntiSpyware 2009 virus?
all i know is it was this virus that destroyed my last computer, and forced me to use this crappy old one of mine x__x

No its not. I work in a computer repair shop and everyweek we get machines infected with that. It is a pain to get rid of and more of a threat than this worm. This worm dosnet seem to cause to much direct damage. Antivirus asks for money which some fools pay.
Reinsatlling windows is easiest way to get rid of it

I managed to get rid of it when my nephew went to a pretend club penguin site, Antivirus pro doesn't allow the admins to install or update antivirus programmes, so what I did was create a new account, restart, add/remove programmes on the fucker, RESTART, install norton (the lesser of two evils) to clear the PC, RESTART, deleted the new account i'd created purely for the purpose of fucking the virus's shit up.

and got hold of absolutly every free copy of antivirus on the net, and ran them all to grab hold of all the straggling dodgy cookies and what not.

It took about 2 hours of restarts and deleting that fucker whereever I saw it, but hey at least my porn is intact.

Sush (coldstorage) 1 - Hackers on Steriods - NIL!

Dude. ComboFix for that bastard. If whatever you're dealing with closes it, just rename the ComboFix exe. It takes like 20 minutes.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Yes Root, what DOSE it do?

Conficker? It's an updating botnet worm. It can do anything the botnetters want it to do.

And you've got 1 day left before it updates.

 

[Woe Is You]

I'd always believed I was more intelligent than the vast majority of the computer public, but it's nice to have a number to go with.

8.9 million is the vast majority of the computer public?

 

[Jman1236]

I don't see it on my nortion virus scan, is there an easy way to check it?

 

[DigitalSushi]

Dude. ComboFix for that bastard. If whatever you're dealing with closes it, just rename the ComboFix exe. It takes like 20 minutes.

Oh yeah, I'll totally combo break its ass next.

(whats combofix?), and awesome, you called me dude, I feel closer to you already.

 

[Syntax Error]

Dude. ComboFix for that bastard. If whatever you're dealing with closes it, just rename the ComboFix exe. It takes like 20 minutes.

Oh yeah, I'll totally combo break its ass next.

(whats combofix?), and awesome, you called me dude, I feel closer to you already.

Combofix is a powerful malware removal tool that has as much a chance of breaking your computer than killing malware. Expert assistance is need for that tool. I suggest posting a HiJackThis log in sites like MajorGeek or TheElderGeek before doing anything (that's what I do, and that's what they say).

One day I hope to be able to do what those guys (at MajorGeek) can do, so I can freaking fix my own computer.

Sorry for the necro.