New version of Conficker worm blocking previous countermeasures of anti virus, third-party providers and online scanning services Holzwickede, April 9, 2009 how the antivirus specialists of BitDefender Labs share with anti malware, a new version of the Conficker worm has been discovered. This makes useless the previous countermeasures of anti virus, third-party and online scanning services. BitDefender has already responded to the new threat and appropriate defence capabilities in all of its security products. Users who are already affected by the new variant of the worm, BitDefender provides under free effective countermeasures both for standalone computer and as for enterprise-wide networks. The new variant of the Conficker worm blocks the access not only to the Web pages of the antivirus vendor, third-party vendors and online scanning services or removal tools, but also access to the recently announced Web pages, which could eliminate the previous versions of the Conficker worm. Concerned about this is also the previous removal tool website of BitDefender (bdtools.net) as well as Internet pages of other providers. All 2009 BitDefender security products identify already the new variant of the Conficker worm as Win32.Worm.Download.Gen”and stop it before it can infect the system. BitDefender recommends all users moving in the network, use of a complete antimalware software up-to-date.

Our experts of the BitDefender anti malware Labs currently meticulously observe the development of the Conficker worm and have come to amazing results that we will inform the public in the near future. One can however already now say: the Conficker worm is not eliminated, but he is currently only. Its development is also clearly, how important it is, the own operating systems, application software and security products always up to date to keep”, explains Harald Philipp, Managing Director of the image material in high resolution can BitDefender GmbH. request be. About BitDefender BitDefender is software developer, one of the industry’s fastest and most efficient product lines internationally certified security software. Since the founding of the company in 2001, BitDefender has set new standards in the field of proactive protection against threats from the Internet.

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