One of the most difficult and harmful viruses out there is the Confiker Virus, it will eat your soul! No, I’m just kidding. But it is dangerous and difficult to get rid of. What is the Confiker worm? We have evidence that the creators of it can connect to an infected computer and install software and maybe even steal personal information. It might be able to be given to criminals to steal IDs. It will also probably direct the infected users to online scams and phishing sites.

The Confiker worm will spread across mainly networks if it finds a target (not the store) it will turn off the automatic backup service, it will delete all the past restore points, disable many security services, and block access to a number of security web sites and opens infected computers to get additional programs from the creator. Then it will spread itself to other computers in the same network as an infected computer. It will find a vulnerable spot, or a problem with the Windows OS.  Once it’s on a computer it tries to spread itself through external drives, USB ports, and memory sticks.

If you don’t know if you have it or not just try to go to a major Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus program site. If you CAN see it, your okay, if you CAN’T, you do have it, and hopefully you already have an Anti-Virus program to get rid of it.

Make sure you already have an Anti-Virus software, and get regular updates from Microsoft. If you don’t have pretty recent updates, then you might be at risk.

If you do have it and you can’t get rid of it, than just call any tech support. They should be able to help you, but act fast or more people may get infected. Also check all your external drives and make sure they aren’t infected, but if your computer is infected your external drives probably will be too, so be careful! Just use caution. Hopefully this worm will be destroyed.

P.S. This is a Windows only worm. Mac users are completely safe.