Just when you thought you could put Cornficker on the list of false alarms, like a bad penny it turns up. That is right, get ready for another media blitz about it.
As of right now, Cornficker is just communicating and transferring payloads between each other. Its also trying to contact sites such as AOL, MSN and the like. The reason on this is to double check time and date. It seems there is a May 3 kill date to stop communications this time, so to prevent you from being able to trick it, it checks on the net for date and time.
Other things now known about this nasty is that the new update is tied into the Waledac family of malware. This family is known for turning machines into bots and has a huge botnet that shoots spam all over the place. What other nasty stuff does Cornficker have in store for us, well we just shall have to wait and see.
As of now most Antivirus software should be able to remove the virus. My recommendation is to start of with the latest version of Malwarebytes to clean it off, since it is easy to download and install the latest version, plus it works real well. Once you’ve cleaned your machine, make sure to patch Windows.
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