Kido – dangerous malware / virus software

by Reeze on June 22, 2009

What is Kido?

Kido is a serious threat to the entire Internet community. This malware was first detected in November 2008. It is estimated that with Kido currently infected with at least 5 million computers. The network of infected machines could potentially become the most powerful resource of cybercrimes.

Where is the danger of Kido?

Developed bu it’s authors a giant Kido zombie network (botnet) can potentially provide an opportunity to make machine is powerful DDoS-attacks to any Internet resources, steal confidential data from infected computers and distribute objectionable content (in particular, to conduct large-scale spam list).

How to avoid getting malware Kido?

Good antivirus software successfully blocked the entry of all versions Kido on your computer. Verify that Automatic Updates of your antivirus software is not disabled and, if you have a suspicion that Kido is already able to get on the computer to scan the entire computer using your Anti-Virus. Installation of patches for the MS08-067 vulnerability, of course, is mandatory to prevent infection.

How to understand what happened infecting your computer or network?

In the presence of infected computers on the network increases the volume of network traffic, since these computers from network attacks. Anti-virus applications to an active network screen reported attack Intrusion.Win.NETAPI.buffer-overflow.exploit.

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