Hopefully, this doesn’t apply to you.  As mentioned before, Conficker is a nasty worm spreading at a high rate.  Today is no April fool’s joke.  It’s the day many believe that the creator of Conficker will trigger all the infect machines — around 15 million worldwide.  This worm has the ability to harvest and record credit card numbers, user names and passwords, etc.

If you’ve been keeping your anti-virus and anti-malware software up to date, you should be in good shape as most detect it by now.  It’s also important to run Windows Update to ensure that all the latest Windows patches have been installed on your machine(s).  However, if you try and run your updates, but are unsuccessful, it could be a sign that your machine is already infected.

Here is a list of some Conficker symptoms:

  • If you are unable to run Windows Update
  • If you are being locked out of a directory
  • If you are being denied access to your admin account or password
  • If you cannot get into security websites and services, or update your installed anti-virus and anti-malware software
  • If you notice a high rate of internet bandwidth being used on your computer while the computer is supposedly idle

If some of these symptoms are occurring, visit our Conficker forum thread for ways to remove this nasty worm.  If you need further assistant, don’t hesitate to contact us.