How to Remove Confickr Virus

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The Confickr worm is one of the most notorious malicious computer infections that has affected millions of PCs over the past few years. The worm usually strikes on April 1, April Fools day. It uses a security loophole in the Microsoft OS. It travels from PC to PC even without human involvement. Microsoft has already resolved the issue October last year but if your computer has not been getting updates, you’re highly at risk of being infected. You’ll know when you’re infected when you can’t browse Microsoft sites and other anti-virus vendors such as Symantec Corp., McAfee Inc. or F-Secure Corp, etc.

Should you get infected, here’s how to remove the Confickr virus:

1. Have an uninfected PC download one of the anti-Confickr virus tools developed by the Conficker Working Group, a group of people battling the virus. They’re really doing well in this war against cyber crime.

2. Have it emailed to your infected PC.
3. Once you downloaded it, rename the file before running it. This is crucial since the Confickr virus will identify all anti-virus efforts to detect itself by disabling all running programs with “Confickr” in it. Just rename it to something else, like “Conficker” or “Confik” to fool the virus. The virus is stupid like that.

4. Run the tools and purge the damn virus.

5. Point and laugh at the word “Confickr” everytime you see it or read about it.

There. You after these steps, your computer should be Confickr free. Good luck soldier. Godspeed.



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