Four steps to ward off Conficker virus

According to statistics, the Conficker virus (some variants are reported as Kido) infection has increased, the Forum on the virus to help paste also increased.

It is not obvious that individual users are infected with the worm, and it is relatively easy to clean up, but corporate LANs are not so easy.

The main methods of transmission of Conficker virus are

1. The use of U disk, mobile hard disk automatic playback function transmission;

2. Weak password attack in LAN;

3. A client that attacks an ms08-067 vulnerability that is not patched within a LAN.

Ad strategy should be used to prevent the spread of Conficker virus in LAN

1. Force all clients in the ad to disable Autorun for all disks except CDROM;

2. Deny client login using weak password;

3. Configure Windows Update or adopt a Third-party vulnerability patch, full network scanning to repair system vulnerabilities;

4. Clients are best off ipc$ sharing.

On the Conficker virus, many foreign manufacturers have done, Microsoft every month to update the Malicious Software Removal Tool can also clear the virus.