[ad#digg-right]Today I’ve been doing research because I surprised how many people have searched for the Conflicker Worm/Virus and I wanted to point just how bad this is getting.     I was looking on Twitter about this some more and here is what I found out:

Over a million conflicker hosts: Are you responsible for any of them? (http: //tinyurl.com/awpeep

[Via twitter  Hevnsnt]

Now I went there and he seemed to of added “)” to the URL so I took that out and here’s the URL to check this out.  I went there and saw all these IP(Internet Protocols) and it claims that it is over a MILLION.  I don’t know if it is true because I stopped the list of IP’s due to the size of list.

I also wanted to talk about the rate at which people are finding this site due to the conflicker virus/worm infecting their systems.     As you can see it is steadily increasing as more and more people are trying to find out how to get rid of this very pesky infestation.   See below for some good resources to get this annoyance.

I went back to twitter and some other places to find out what people are saying about this virus and I found this interesting comment:

Conflicker Virus has locked out my work account again…. slightly upsetting it keeps trying to break my account password

[via Twitter twitpaul]

[ad#ad2-right]According to one blog post, they seem to think this is a test worm trying the waters out to see how well it works.  I tend to agree with this blog post because of the unlikely hood of just infecting systems for fun.   I also think they are going to use this worm/virus for a Botnet.  There have been several post about this being a possible Botnet setup.  Acording to Computeworld, They claim this is building a Botnet and I tend to wonder if this was a bad deployment or if they are just reading to start this up after so many computers are infected.

I don’t know what to call the Conflicker a Virus or a Worm.  So I’ve decided to just use both.  I’ve been telling people to patch there system as soon as possible.  I’d also tell people that you need a good AV and a Good Firewall.   Although this sometimes won’t prevent you from getting a virus you will undoubtedly need to disable Auto run.   Here are some good resources to better help you get this virus off your system:

• F-secure Downadup Removal Tool
• Symantec 32.Downadup Removal Tool
• Bit Defender Removal Tool
• Malware Resource

As you can see there are several different options to help remove this virus and I thought I would list them here.   I have heard how hard this virus is to remove and I want to help people remove this virus.  Some other things to consider is disabling your restore points before you remove the worm, or it will just come back.