{"id":7700,"date":"2009-04-15T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-15T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T10:32:00","slug":"downadup-worm-variant-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/7700-downadup-worm-variant-identified.html","title":{"rendered":"Downadup worm variant identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BitDefender researchers in the Antimalware Labs have identified a new variant of the Downadup\/Conficker worm, able to circumvent detection and disinfection using the removal tools created for its previous versions.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to blocking access to any Web site of anti-virus vendors, as well as third parties offering online scanning services or removal tools, the malicious binary has been updated to refuse users access to http:\/\/bdtools.net, BitDefender&#8217;s online repository for distributing disinfection and removal tools.    <\/p>\n<p>Updated disinfection tools are now available online at www.disinfecttools.com, a domain that is not currently blacklisted on the compromised machines.     <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Since the new variant blocks bdtools.net the new recommended domain name is www.disinfecttools.com (from our preliminary analysis this is not blocked by the malware),&quot; says Viorel Canja, head of BitDefender Labs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BitDefender researchers in the Antimalware Labs have identified a new variant of the Downadup\/Conficker worm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}