Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Conficker

A computer worm that emerged in the year 2008, with its main attack target is Microsoft Windows. Conficker automatically spread itself by exploiting the buffer overflow weaknesses that occurred in the service windows. This worm uses a special RPC request to execute his own code on the target computer. Every time a user connects his computer to the Internet, automatically appear Generic Host Process Error message which is the most common symptoms Conficker. In addition, Conficker also known to cause Active Directory username login is locked, because he did bruteforce action. In many cases, even cause interruption in Internet connection victim.

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