Microsoft Warns of New Windows Worm
by Wyatt WalterMicrosoft is warning consumers that a bug patched by the out-of-cycle patch a little over a month ago is being exploited in a new worm that’s seeing a recent surge. The vulnerability lies in the Windows Server service that runs on all Windows machines that allows the OS to connect to shares over the network. The worm has been named ‘Conficker.a’ by Microsoft and ‘Downadup’ by Symantec. According to Ziv Mador, a security researcher and Technet Blogger, the worm “mostly spreads within corporations but also was reported by several hundred home users”. Once the worm infects a machine, it will spread itself across the network to other un-patched systems that it finds. If you haven’t been keeping up with your Windows updates, now’s a good time to start.
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Nov 30th, 2008
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