If you know the Conficker dude, we've got a prize for you

re: If you know the Conficker dude, we've got a prize for you

Victor Constantinescu — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:14:41 GMT

It took your guys some time to start this initiative. Although botnets, in all flavours, have been present for several years and have been causing millions of dollars losses, nobody, especially ISPs, aren't doing anything about it.

One can wonder if all this is far too little way too late? Can you solve anything by arresting the guy that did conficker? Sure, justice will be served, but tomorrow or even today, 5 other guys will take his place and think of another way they can create a botnet. And nobody will care about the other 5 guys after Conficker gets solved, because they will only have 2-6k of bots so they aren't going to get any press. After those 5 guys, another 5 guys will come and so on and so forth. Until the next Conficker or Blaster or etc.. and that's when Microsoft will notice again...

re: If you know the Conficker dude, we've got a prize for you

Eddie Philips — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:43:34 GMT

We are still seeing a lot of individuals coming to our site, locked out from Microsoft and anti-virus sites by the virus, trying to fix their computers. The Conficker Cabal helps the industry, but not the PC owners.

The industry needs to set up a common, free support site at one or more unblocked domains with tools for victims to fix their Windows machines. XP Home users, for example, have no simple way outside of the registry hack (documented on our site and several others) to disable Autoplay. These infected machines represent a potential ongoing source of reinfection. People are paying rental geeks hundreds of dollars on house calls even though they owned (and regularly updated) antivirus software.

Finally, the technical community needs to stop the "ha ha - get a mac/linux" attitude and act with a sense of service to their friends and neighbors who own and enjoy Windows PCs.

re: If you know the Conficker dude, we've got a prize for you

RockyH — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:00:57 GMT

I have a step by step on my blog on how to remove it if anyone is interested.

http://blogs.msdn.com/rockyh/archive/2009/01/14/conficker-removal-with-msrt.aspx

re: If you know the Conficker dude, we've got a prize for you

Reza — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:39:32 GMT

They are careless people are over the world. Microsoft has been released the update last year and this worm will detect and removed by almost all Anti-Malware for Windows but users are not update and they may infect as long as they infect then they cannot update Windows or install MSRT or log on to Safety.live.com to scan their PC . Therefore to protect your friend I recommend you to download MSRT in your removable storages : your flashmemory,external harddisk, MP3, Windows Mobile and then if you see infected PC insert your device and scan with MSRT to remove it then log on to Safety.live.com and do full scan but before do that update the operating system. If Windows is not Genuine then leave it with Malware and do nothing. You also could install 90-day trial of Windows OneCare for infected user if he want to. WARNING that if you insert any device it will infected please make sure you have updated Windows and Anti-Malware and you have enough skill to remove Malware from your removable device (do full scan in your removable device).

Hope helps

re: If you know the Conficker dude, we've got a prize for you

sunkumarspace — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:21:22 GMT

i totally agree while we surf the net we should be wach ful it is like leeting the door open in the night and stealing done then we are worried about it. so we should be careful as this wen world chaos so we should be careful while surfing and also malicous software removal tool scan also should be done.