China: Millions of computers infected with the Conficker worm

TipsMake.com - According to an official report, in 2009, one in four computers in China had a computer infected with the Conficker worm. This shows that counterfeit software is appearing more and more in this country .

According to the annual security report posted on the CNCERT website, China has about 7 million Internet protocol addresses infected with Conficker B late last year. The number of viral infections increased sharply during the second half.

According to the report, China accounts for 28% of Conficker B cases worldwide. Conficker operators have so far not used a network of infected computers, but they can rely on it to establish a 'denial of service' attack by requesting machines. calculate contact at the same time with a victim server.

Fake software is a worldwide problem, but personal computer users in China seem more vulnerable to this problem than other countries. According to the latest report, more than 4% of the more than 380 million Internet users in the country do not have security software. Software security issues are also rampant in China when unregistered Windows XP versions on personal computers will not receive any security updates.

Conficker began to spread in late 2008 and became the most notorious botnet. However, at the end of last year, people paid less attention to this virus because it should be updated on April 1 of last year and nothing happened. Millions of personal computers around the world are still affected by this virus.

The number of Internet protocols affected by China's Conficker C virus increased from 125,000 to 300,000 during the second half of 2009, making China more than 20% of the world's infected Internet protocols. The figures given in the Chinese report are much higher than similar figures from the Shadowserver Foundation volunteer group. The Shadowserver Foundation website shows that the number of virus infections in China is less than 2 million. For example, some computers are granted new Internet protocols each time they connect to the Internet, so when a computer is infected with a virus that disconnects from the Internet or reconnects, it may cause a series of protocols. Other Internet is infected with virus.

The Chinese report also showed that the number of computers infected with Trojan has dropped. China has 260,000 personal computers infected with Trojans, down more than half from the previous year and 837,000 computers infected with botnets, down more than 30%.