Have you done your prevention?

I think as most of you have known, Conficker, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido is rapidly spreading among the web now. Worse, the number of pc infected at least doubled this on this recent months.

The worm works by downloading and installing additional malware from attacker-controlled Web sites, from what i have read, besides stealing your credit card, id information. this virus also turns off the automatic backup service, deletes previous restore points, disables many security services, blocks access to a number of security web sites and opens infected machines to receive additional programs from the malware’s creator.

Precaution:

1. Making sure to use the latest update of Microsoft, Users who do not have a genuine version of Windows from Microsoft are most at risk since pirated system usually cannot get Microsoft updates and patches.
2. Using a good security suice and antivirus like Norton and Symantec, do not trust those online scan
3. Conficker also spread by disk and thumbdrive, turn off your autoplay, here's how : http://www.ehow.com/how_4734209_turn-off-autoplay.html?ref=fuel&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_campaign=yssp_art

If you suspected you are already infected, you can go to:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

download a specialized Conficker removal tool