Conficker Virus

According to the popular computer companies such as Microsoft, Symantec, F-Secure, and so on the virus actually in evolving into stronger malware worm. As of February 13th, Microsoft is offering a $250,000 USD reward for information leading  up to the conviction or arrest of the authors of the Conficker Family. The Conficker Virus has many alias names such as Downup, Kido, Downadup, and Confi.

Conficker A
The first signs of this malware were detected on November 11th, 2008 called Conficker.A. This virus exploits your MS08-067 vulnerability Server Service (Net BIOS), pulling downloads from trafficconverter.biz and downloads daily from any of 250 pseudo random domains over 5 Top Level Domain Names. If the Conficker.A virus has successfully infected a computer it then has the capability to update itself to any of its family members (Conficker.B, Conficker.C, Conficker.D). It is not said that it would be able to update to the Conficker.E Malware Virus yet but its a very probable and likely that it does.

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