What is confick?

Answer 1

The Conficker worm, a nasty computer infection that has poisoned millions of PCs, started ramping up its efforts Wednesday to use those machines for cybercrimes. It's unclear whether everyday PC users will even notice, but this is as good an excuse as any to make sure your computer is clean. The worm will try to steal private data from your pc, such as passwords etc.

There are some easy ways to figure out whether a computer has the Conficker worm, and free tools available for getting rid of it.

One scary thing about Conficker is that it spreads without human involvement, moving from PC to PC by exploiting a security hole in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system. The hole was fixed in October, but if your computer doesn't get automatic updates from Microsoft, you could be vulnerable.

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Answer 2

* conficker is a virus and by reading this it has just entered your computer. * it will spread to any other computer you communicate with, may it be via IM, FileShare, or email. Answer

The "Conficker" worm / virus also known as "Downadup" infection, is actually a virus code programmed in such a way that it can infect your computer and spread itself to other computers across a network automatically, without human interaction.