Safari Windows Users Beware! The Latest Worm is Hunting for Your PCs

Recently a new Worm has emerged as one of the biggest threats for the Windows PCs. It’s been known as Conficker, Kido or Downadup and has infected nine million computers to date. This worm can allow the spammers and phishers to gain total control of the infected PC and trace all the internet activities. It can be used by the cyber criminals as a potential tool to gain access to the user’s confidential information such as credit card number, account number and banking transactions.

The worst thing is that the whole process is 100 percent transparent to the user. This worm has got a very speedy performance with regards to replication. It spreads in the networks rapidly and in no time obstructs the bandwidth completely. As a result the whole network traffic gets jammed and the spammers can reroute it for any disguise activities. Kido only infects Windows systems. The Windows operating system is so vulnerable that it allows this worm to infect the kernel, system’s main files and registry.

The Worm is very intelligent and follows different patterns while replicating. So it cannot be stopped completely by any single anti-virus system. The only way to stop it to get the new security patch and virus removal tool that is launched by Microsoft. Of course it only affects those running Windows, as people with the Apple MacBook running the Mac OS X operating system remain unaffected. The worm remains a major threat and is currently estimated to have infected up to 15 million computers worldwide.