<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6966388.post-1544826659091346944</id><published>2009-01-24T10:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-24T10:34:15.310-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Conficker ("Downadup") is nasty</title><summary type='text'>My eldest son's computer contracted a nasty bit of malware a couple of weeks ago, which I had to remove manually (NONE of the antivirus software caught it). And believe me, tracking it down and removing it manually without knowing what it was was no easy thing. He's lucky I'm his dad, otherwise the repair could have been hugely expensive.It was the "Conficker" worm, aka "Downadup".Fortunately for</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6966388/1544826659091346944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6966388&amp;postID=1544826659091346944' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6966388/posts/default/1544826659091346944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6966388/posts/default/1544826659091346944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.cratchit.org/blog/2009/01/conficker-downadup-is-nasty.html' title='Conficker (&quot;Downadup&quot;) is nasty'/><author><name>Dave Leigh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08617556290378317379</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='03590998305733267419'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry>