This is a conficker
Supposedly there are over 50,000 possible websites
the conficker worm will try to contact when it activates, and there may
be thousands of botnet computers that are passing it on to whoever is
suckered into visiting those websites. But it has done nothing more
than install itself and try to prevent its removal - and that will
interfere with your use of the computer. What it does when it activates
is unknown at this time.
People who have illegal or cracked copies of Windows XP or Vista cannot
get critical updates from Microsoft and so they are the ones most likely
to be constantly infected and affected.
If the Conficker worm is on a computer it can infect any USB drive
plugged into it, and then when that USB drive is plugged into another
Windows computer that has AutoRun enabled, the worm will infect the
computer.
Make sure your computer has all of Microsoft's critical updates
installed.
You can read what Wikipedia has to say:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker
Microsoft has short technical article here:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal...
You can use Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool (if you have it)
to scan your drive and USB drives for the files the worm uses and
delete them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_s...
Click Start
Click Run
Type MRT
Press Enter.
.
Download MRT from:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...
The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool helps remove
specific, prevalent malicious software from computers that are running
Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, or
Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890830We are not paid for free slutions so would expect a good rating from you if you resolved your issue
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