Jan 20

Worms Infected 1 Million PC in a Day, Surprisingly

Posted in Virus

Truly I am surprise to know this. Just in time of 24 hours, the worms exploit a bug Windows infected more than one million of Windows PC. As noted from detikINET, Finnish security company F-Secure, estimates that the number of PCs infected by worm called “Downadup” is now increased from a previous 2.4 million to 3.5 million.

According to several security companies, the worm is also called “Conficker” This exploit a bug in the Windows Server service used to support all versions of Microsoft operating systems, such as Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008.

The increase dramatically the number of the infected PC “Downadup”, Microsoft is pushing to add detection for the worm Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), ie the anti-malware tools from Microsoft.

Reportedly, the largest number of infections occur in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Korea, and several European countries, including English, French and German.

Suprisingly isn’t it ?

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