New worm infecting computers at an alarming rate
The recent studies have found out that a new computer virus has infected nearly 20 million computers throughout the world and is also spreading really fast. This virus or worm is known by several names where down ad up, Downandup and conficker are some of the commonly known names and this worm is very deceiving. It has been found that a window would given a pop up warning that states that your computer has in infection and show up an anti virus software. However when you try to purchase the anti virus software in order to delete the virus it would actually steal all you credit card and other important information while even infect your computer.
Some of the experts find that is can be one of the worst infection to infect computers in the last six years and it is also easy to fall for it. Robert Nash the computer technician said that the virus looks legit and unless computer users are informed about this or know about the virus would easily make its way into the computers. However according to Joe Kadar the computer technician the virus attach has gone from around 2.4 million machines to nearly 8.9 million machines infected within one day which also makes it one of the fastest spreading virus in the world.
This virus mainly spreads by infiltrating in tot eh flash drives. So, when the virus has made its way into the flash driver and has infected the computer machine you are using, it can even infect all the computers in the network. The radio personality for instance would basically rely on their computer for song requests and to update their websites. Here if the computer develops the virus it would make the workday much more difficult, while your computer might also transmit the virus into other computers connected to the machine.
Therefore following the same patter of predictions that has let to the devastating worm attach, has actually let security analysts to start focusing on the new crop of Microsoft. The windows vulnerabilities along with the attack tools to that are created to take advantage of them can all together create a potential new family of computer virus. Just after a short period Microsoft had warned their users about the new vulnerabilities in remote procedure call protocol of windows, the same software which opened nearly a million machines to the virus attach is actually the code that is being circulated through the web. This means that it is important you stay safe as this virus can actually cause a lot of problems.
Most of the security intelligence companies and even computer security companies recommend that you update your anti virus program so that you eventually kill out the worm from your computer. Although purchasing new anti virus can prove to be beneficial it would rather be hard to trust its reliability to be free from malware. Therefore you can just keep updating your anti virus frequently from the official dealer in order to eventually remove the entire worm and stay way from it.
