{"id":9343,"date":"2009-01-15T16:35:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9343"},"modified":"2009-01-15T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"worm-alert-conficker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9343","title":{"rendered":"Worm Alert: Conficker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got an email from our TAM in Microsoft.\u00a0 It must be important because we don&#8217;t normally get mails like this from MS.\u00a0 They&#8217;re warning us that a worm called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/security\/analyses\/viruses-and-spyware\/malconfickera.html\">Conficker<\/a> is rampant at the moment.\u00a0 You are vulnerable if you have not deployed the security update <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/security\/bulletin\/ms08-067.mspx\">MS08-067<\/a>.\u00a0 If you do get infected by Conficker or Banload then there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/mmpc\/archive\/2009\/01\/13\/msrt-released-today-addressing-conficker-and-banload.aspx\">fix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That security patch was released in October 2008.\u00a0 See how important it is to perform your updates?\u00a0 Don&#8217;t blame MS if you get hit by this one.\u00a0 And yes, Linux and Mac have security updates too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got an email from our TAM in Microsoft.\u00a0 It must be important because we don&#8217;t normally get mails like this from MS.\u00a0 They&#8217;re warning us that a worm called Conficker is rampant at the moment.\u00a0 You are vulnerable if you have not deployed the security update MS08-067.\u00a0 If you do get infected by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9343\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Worm Alert: Conficker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}