Thursday, March 26, 2009

Conficker C Infection Symptoms

* Account lockout policies being reset automatically.

* Certain Microsoft Windows services such as Automatic Updates, Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), Windows Defender and Error Reporting Services are automatically disabled.

* Domain controllers respond slowly to client requests.

* System network gets unusually congested. This can be checked with network traffic chart on Windows Task Manager.

* On websites related to antivirus software, Windows system updates cannot be accessed.

* Launches a brute force dictionary attack against administrator passwords to help it spread through ADMIN$ shares, making choice of sensible passwords advisable.

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