Conficker has already caused a fair amount of mayhem, but what does it do? There is still some mystery as to the true intent of the scofflaws that wrote conficker, but it seems that it is set to unleash a lot of activity tomorrow, April 1. McAfee’s Avert Labs Blog has a couple of posts about it for somewhat more detailed information.
In that article, they explain that there is a 90% detection rate across all AV vendors. So keep your antivirus software updated, and doing a scan today with updated virus definitions is probably a wise idea.
Also, Microsoft has been aware of the vulnerability expolited by conficker, and there is a patch that will prevent infection. Keep Windows up to date. If you’ve been doing that all along, via Automatic Updates, there’s a good chance you’ll see no ill effects from Conficker. If you’ve been letting those updates linger for a while before installing them, do an AV scan today just to be sure.
A couple of articles of interest:
http://www.mcafee.com/us/threat_center/conficker.html
http://www.symantec.com/norton/theme.jsp?themeid=conficker_worm&inid=us_ghp_link_conficker_worm
