Happy New Year 2009 - Deadly Virus ‘Downadup ‘Says to Windows PC
Posted by admin on 23rd January 2009
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A new computer virus called ‘Downadup’ sometimes referred as Conficker is the latest security threat to your windows operating system. It already generated a lot of interest & infected millions of PCs worldwide with maximum victims in Asia Pacific region including India & China.
Downadup turns off the automatic backup service, delete previous restore points, disable windows defender service etc and then connects to web server in order to determine external IP Address of victim machine, which is further used to download the virus’s executable file along with additional malware programs.
The virus also connects itself to certain windows programs like services.exe, explorer.exe & svchost.exe.
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