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Conficker strikes

China last year hosted more than one in four of the world’s computers infected with a major variant of the Conficker worm. China had about 7 million Internet protocol (IP) addresses infected with Conficker B at the end of last year, according to a recent annual security report posted on the website of China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team.

Conficker.D infects the local computer, terminates services, blocks access to numerous security related websites and downloads arbitrary code. Conficker.D can relay command instructions to other Conficker.D infected computers via built-in peer-to-peer (P2P) communication. This variant does not spread to removable drives or shared folders across a network (as with previous variants).

Conficker.D is installed by previous variants of Win32/Conficker.

 
That is the bad news.
 
The good news is that it is removable and preventable and such actions cost nothing.
It is total idleness and ignorance that allows it to continue.
Microsoft tells you all about it and how to get rid of it. It is relatively simple, well within the skill of the normal user.

ComputerWorld
 report on its prevalence does show that China simply does not take viruses seriously enough.

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