For those who are infected by cinficker worm, NO NEED TO BE WORRIED. The windows worm downaduo kido conficker that has infected upto 10 million pcs can be removed using manuall removal method. also removal tools for cinficker worm avaiable over internet
On 04/01/2009 10:46 PM, dfinc sent:
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59cobalt
Hello:
Although as a /generality/ this *may* be true, particularly with complex infestations. However, Microsoft themselves encourages the use of their MRT as an accepted remediation practice for Conficker. You're *NOT* wrong. But in this case though, flatten & rebuild is overkill.
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Pete
Is it? The system could have been infected with a different (not yet known to the public) Conficker variant. It could be infected with other (undetected) malware on top of that. Unless you are really, absolutely,
100% sure that the infection was with Conficker.X, only Conficker.X and nothing but Conficker.X, your only safe way back to a clean system is to flatten and rebuild.Microsoft can recommend their removal tool all day long, that doesn't change anything at all about the fact that all of these tools make the assumption that the compromised system is infected with nothing but what they detected. An assumption that may be right, but may just as well be wrong.
cu
59cobalt
How do you then regain trust in a system that is infected with something you don't fully understand and "cleaned" by something you don't fully know what does?
Wipe it and rebuild it in a clean environment, that's the only way I would trust the computer again.
conficker has now gone underground
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