The Conficker Virus is proving to be an ‘unusually clever’ worm, and experts are trying hard to disable the virus before it spreads further. The virus has so far attacked over nine million computers, including those of the Ministry of Defence, and is proving to be a very worthy opponent. Once the computer is infected with the virus, the worm masquerades as a normal-looking folder that needs to be opened, and when the user clicks on it they unwittingly install the worm.

The Conficker Virus is very clever, and once installed attempts to contact various servers where it could get a download to take control of the entire computer.В  Also known as Downadup, the virus disables automatic updates so that computer users are unable to get the virus definitions updated.В  The worm is staying one step ahead of researchers, and uses different algorithms every day to contact its needed servers. These are based on time stamps from normal search engines, making it very difficult for researchers to get ahead. The virus developers only need to set up a new website to be used the following day to get a complete list of all the infected computers.

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