Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Conficker virus still a threat around the world

Everybody heard about Conficker worm or 1st April virus but question is that each and every computer overcome from this virus, many computers not patched against conficker, says iYogi.

IT technical support company iYogi is reminding to all computer user around the world of the essence of ensuring their PCs are up to date with latest antvirus security because following research by Sophos shows many PC still having Conficker virus.

We have taken examine data for all users who took participate in Endpoint assessment test since 1 Jan this, in that data Sophos found 11 percent user’s PC did not have the Microsoft MS08-067 patch installed which can, amongst other things, help protect against the spread of Conficker. When looking at the figures just for march 10 were still missing the essential patch.

So iYogi would have expected from all computer users to wake up to that windows antivirus and add or install the patch which is very necessary to your computer.

Here what you need to know Conficker infects computers through a make use in Windows. So there is need of only those computer users who do not keep their Windows operating system updated have been at verge of risk of getting infected.

Hope this blog post would help you a lot.