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Article: Kaspersky Lab analyses new version of Kido (Conficker); New threats for infected PCs: rogue antivirus application and spam email worm.
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- April 14, 2009
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M2 PRESSWIRE-14 April 2009-Kaspersky Lab: Kaspersky Lab analyses new version of Kido (Conficker); New threats for infected PCs: rogue antivirus application and spam email worm(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Abingdon -- Kaspersky Lab announces that a new version of the malicious program Kido (also known as Conficker and Downadup) has been detected. During the night of 8th - 9th April, computers infected with Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Kido (also known as Conficker.c) contacted each other over P2P, telling infected machines to download new malicious files, thus activating the Kido botnet.
This latest Kido variant differs ...