On Tuesday, computers infected by the Conficker worm woke up and downloaded a new variant. Named “Worm.Downad.E” by Trend Micro, “Conficker.AQ” by antivirus vendor Eset and “Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Kido.o” by antivirus vendor Kaspersky Labs, this new variant has left many security threat researchers bewildered. One conundrum: They don’t know why it has a kill switch that apparently kicks in on May 3. Also, the new variant has a mysterious dropped component. It will eventually delete that component, and researchers are still trying to figure out why.
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Conficker Twitch Leaves Security Sleuths With More Mysteries to Solve
Posted by: Richard Adhikari April 9, 2009 12:09 PMOn Tuesday, computers infected by the Conficker worm woke up and downloaded a new variant. Named “Worm.Downad.E” by Trend Micro, “Conficker.AQ” by antivirus vendor Eset and “Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Kido.o” by antivirus vendor Kaspersky Labs, this new variant has left many security threat researchers bewildered. One conundrum: They don’t know why it has a kill switch that apparently kicks in on May 3. Also, the new variant has a mysterious dropped component. It will eventually delete that component, and researchers are still trying to figure out why.