[South Florida DX Association] Important ? Virus News, April-13-09

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MS on Conficker.E, patches

Researchers reported that some PCs infected with Conficker received a binary 
file over P2P. The updated version of the worm, called Conficker.E, starts 
scanning for other computers that haven't patched Microsoft vulnerability 
MS08-067. The new update also tells Conficker to contact MySpace.com, 
MSN.com, eBay.com, CNN.com and AOL.com apparently to confirm that the 
infected machine is connected to the internet, and blocks infected PCs from 
visiting some web sites. In another twist, the binary appears to be 
programmed to stop running on May 3, which will shut off the new functions.

Microsoft has published more detailed information on Conficker.E on its MMPC 
blog. The company has repeated its guidance regarding the worm: If you have 
patch MS08-067 installed and your virus database updated, you don't need to 
worry about Conficker.

Separately, Microsoft announced that it will issue eight security updates on 
Tuesday, April 14, the most since October 2008. Of them, five are rated 
"Critical". The updates address vulnerabilities in Windows, Excel, Internet 
Explorer and ISA Server.

Resources:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-apr.mspx

http://blogs.technet.com/mmpc/archive/2009/04/09/win32-conficker-variants-update.aspx