April 1st – Joke on Conficker.D?
I walked into work today, with an air of anticipation on the potential torrent of problems with our servers. Fortunately, it was all quiet on the western front with not a single incident of viral infection reported. It was so anti-climatic in a way, a similar feeling you get when you pay good money to watch a mediocre film, after reading the hyperbole that came with it.
Not that any complaints were issued, myself and many others were quite relieved but we pre-empted the problem early on and thankfully our security precautions were not put to the test. Perhaps the warning of impending doom was the April Fool’s joke in itself, maybe we will never know. Nevertheless, this is perhaps not the last we will hear of this and as ever, new security vulnerabilities appear every day.
If you were not so fortunate, then you may be interested in this. As part of our research, Sophos released a newer stand-alone Conficker clean-up tool. We have not needed to use it, but I thought it prudent to share if you are still fire fighting in your I.T environment. You will need to have a MySophos account to download the tool; you can create one on their site.
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