Conficker Variant Details, Symptoms, and Precautionary Measures

What is Conficker Worm ?
Conficker is an Interesting and Smart self updating worm discovered in October 2008. It Exploits a known security problem in Windows Operating System. The Operating Systems vulnerable to Conficker Variant are Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and the latest Operating System Windows 7 Beta also.

The danger posed by this worm can be measured from the fact that Microsoft has put 250,000 Bounty on the person who wrote the code of Conficker Variant. Various Versions of this Worm have infected millions of PC’s since october 2008.

Different Version of Conficker Worm

Conficker A also Known as:
TA08-297A (other)
CVE-2008-4250 (other)
VU827267 (other)
Win32/Conficker.worm.62976 (AhnLab)
Trojan.Downloader.JLIW (BitDefender)
Win32/Conficker.A (CA)
Win32/Conficker.A (ESET)
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.aqfw (Kaspersky)
W32/Conficker.worm (McAfee)
W32/Conficker.E (Norman)
W32/Confick-A (Sophos)
W32.Downadup (Symantec)
Trojan.Disken.B (VirusBuster)

Conficker B Also Known As:
TA08-297A (other)
CVE-2008-4250 (other)
VU827267 (other)
Win32/Conficker.A (CA)
Mal/Conficker-A (Sophos)
Trojan.Win32.Agent.bccs (Kaspersky)
W32.Downadup.B (Symantec)
Confickr (other)