'Updated' Worm Using Obama Spam To Spread Rapidly

From enterprisetoday
A virus that is spreading with a vengeance is plaguing businesses in the new year. The Conficker worm, which caused havoc on Windows PCs in October, has come back to strike more than 3.5 million PCs in 24 hours under a new name, Downadup, according to security analysts.

The worm resurfaced earlier in the month, infecting Windows workstations and servers and causing a variety of problems for users.

Downadup consists of a family of network worms that are difficult to remove, especially when there is an infection inside a corporate network, according to F-Secure, a security company which first released warnings about the worm.

"First discovered in October 2008, Conficker, Kido or Downadup is a very sophisticated worm, but the updated version from two weeks ago is much more serious," said Jart Armin, a security specialist with HostExploit. "Essentially it becomes part of MS Windows services.exe, and then establishes an HTTP server Relevant Products/Services from the infected PC."
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