{"id":853,"date":"2009-03-31T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T13:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coresecuritypatterns.com\/blogs\/?p=853"},"modified":"2017-10-02T03:05:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T03:05:38","slug":"conficker-worm-to-hit-on-april-fools-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websecuritypatterns.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/31\/conficker-worm-to-hit-on-april-fools-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Conficker Worm to hit on April Fool&#8217;s day !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like another malware storm&#8230;my buddy Microsoft Windows user is itching the head with a burning stick and cleaning up his entire data\/malware center..as it is suspected that Conficker Worm (Conficker Version C and D) might have infected million of computers running MS Windows environment &#8211; not sure it affects both server and desktops. The worm is programmed to modify and hit on April Fool&#8217;s Day (tomorrow) &#8211; .\u00a0 Everybody is yet to know, what kind of damage this worm will cause ! Seriously it is not a April fool joke.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/protect\/computer\/viruses\/worms\/conficker.mspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/protect\/images\/viruses\/diagram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a> The US-CERT suggests that all Microsoft Windows users must apply <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/security\/Bulletin\/MS08-067.mspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft security patch MS08-067<\/a> , and Microsoft provided some nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/protect\/computer\/viruses\/worms\/conficker.mspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guidelines<\/a> on how you can protect against the Conficker worm. It is also interesting to note, Microsoft announced a $250,000 bounty to identify those who implemented the Conficker worm. Not sure, they may be punishing or interested in hiring them !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like another malware storm&#8230;my buddy Microsoft Windows user is itching the head with a burning stick and cleaning up his entire data\/malware center..as it is suspected that Conficker Worm (Conficker Version C and D) might have infected million of computers running MS Windows environment &#8211; not sure it affects both server and desktops. The worm is programmed to modify&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/websecuritypatterns.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/31\/conficker-worm-to-hit-on-april-fools-day\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-security","tag-security"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websecuritypatterns.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websecuritypatterns.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websecuritypatterns.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websecuritypatterns.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websecuritypatterns.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/websecuritypatterns.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"https:\/\/websecuritypatterns.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websecuritypatterns.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websecuritypatterns.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websecuritypatterns.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}