Happy Day!
In my previous post “What are the consequences if you are not ‘Be Secure, Be Happy’?” I took Downadup as an example to explain. Now the worm is getting bigger day by day. As of 23rd Jan 2009 the total unique IP addresses that F-secure detected has increased to over 1 million from 350,000 a week ago. Again Panda Security said that there could be well over 50 million infected Windows computers (that is 6% of all Windows computers) in 83 countries, and that could be even more. The security industry is facing big challenge in disinfecting this worm. So it is every ones responsibility to stay secure. So be security aware to ‘be secure, be happy’! You may way to get started with What is IT security? to become security conscious.
To learn more about this worm and removal instructions you can visit my blog post here for related information. For your quick your reference here are the related links:
F-Secure – How big this worm is?
F-Secure – Detailing the geographic location wise break up information – Where is Downadup? According to the list China, Russia, Brazil and India are in first four. So if you are living in any of those countries you may have to pay special attention to stay away from this worm.
F-Secure’s Removal tool: If you are infected by the worm, you cannot reach any of the anti-malware web sites. So F-Secure provided different links to download their removal tool. Related blog article here, for removal tool ftp site link 1 and link 2.
Microsoft: KB article 962007 for more description, removal tool MSRT (Malicious Software Removal Tool) and removal instructions.
If you are not able to go to the vendors’ web sites for removal instructions, you may want to download the removal tool, and go here for removal instructions.
You can choose to follow either Microsoft’s or F-Secures instructions, both companies instructions are not required. If you have any further questions or need any help please feel free to contact me directly Kratu@G.Ho.st or Hari Emani at Gmail dot com.
Have fun!
