New worm Downadup exploits Windows vulnerability
Security researchers at Microsoft Corp. late yesterday warned of a significant increase in exploits of a Windows bug that the software vendor patched with an emergency fix last month, confirming earlier reports by Symantec Corp. Microsoft again urged users to apply the MS08-067 patch if they have not already done so. The new attacks, which Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center said began over the weekend but spiked during the past two days, use the same worm that Symantec first spotted last Friday. Dubbed “Conficker.a” by Microsoft and “Downadup” by Symantec, the worm exploits a vulnerability in the Windows Server service, which is used by all versions of the operating system to connect to file and print servers on a network.
Microsoft patched the bug in an out-of-cycle update five weeks ago, after it discovered a small number of infected PCs, most of them in Southeast Asia. The worm also resets the machine’s system restore point, said Microsoft in its technical write-up, which may make it difficult or impossible to “roll back” Windows to a pre-infection state. PCs that have been patched with the MS08-067 fix are protected, Ziv Mador, researcher with the Microsoft Malware Protection Center, stressed.
Source: ComputerWorld
Comments(14)
shocker
Windows is vulnerable? :O
It has to be a joke. Oh noes it’s not april 1st. Weird.
Random news ftw!
they need a patch for all these different winantivirus 08 and 09s malware’ that are wrecking havoc, well actually not..cuz ima makin a killin fixin em..
Have no fear Norton is here
I hope I dont get my Linux box infected sharing files and the printer with a Winow$ machine!!!! Linux FTW!!!
@Phuck_Da_RIAA
I’m pretty sure that’s what the last monthly windows update did.
@8 Phuck_Da_RIAA
I agree, it has become my favorite program ANITVIRUS 2009 FTW.
“Security researchers at Microsoft Corp.”
hehe. there are none. they only rely on 3rd party experts.
Read This Then
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-067.mspx
No such thing as a secure OS. They all have vulnerabilities. There’s no point in exploiting a minority OS, no profit. Better to exploit a popular, OS with lots of targets. The price to pay for being the most used OS on the planet. An acceptable cost in my view.
i would love to see mac and or linux catch a cold or worst the flu thing applegate and linux gate who shot the sheriff pmsl
I LOVE WINDOWS! I USE LINUX AND MAC! CONSTANTLY!