Computer experts still fear the spread of the virus Konfikr

Computer experts still fear the spread of the virus Konfikr which infected millions of computers around the world, although it failed on Wednesday to raise the chaos, as some have feared.

Designed to prevent the virus Konfikr PC to a machine to respond to orders sent from the server (server) in the control of a large army of computers.

However, analysts say in the software industry that fears of an attack Konfikr virus may have been an unexpected loss of manufacturing companies, anti-virus programs that warned consumers of the virus.

Some companies spend millions of dollars a year on promotional campaigns to warn of threats to personal computers at a time when the industry programs to combat computer viruses because of the pressures of economic recession has prompted some customers to delay purchase of new programs or postponement of contributors.

The researchers fear that the network established by the virus could spread Konfikr Wednesday for the first time since the emergence of the virus in the past year it has increased its attempts to contact the server controlling the first of April.

The form of security experts in the industry task force to combat the virus and to draw the attention of experts who reported on a large scale that they may have been afraid of the criminals who control the army's computers.

The Group was foiled in part by using a virus to control the traffic across the Internet, to prevent access to the server, which controls the PC's.

The researchers cautioned that the gatekeepers in the network are likely to have been waiting to be taken to mobilize dropping of a new network of computers infected with the virus.

The virus has a large capacity to enable it to attack infected PCs for several months, like viruses that exploit weaknesses in the Windows operating system produced by Microsoft.

It is believed that the Konfikr one of many similar networks controlled by the authorities believe gangs based in Eastern Europe and South-East Asia, China and Latin America.

While the network Konfikr inert, analysts say that millions of devices in other networks to receive orders on a regular basis to perform the functions of the account controlled by the server.

According to experts who have analyzed the virus code Konfikr he had the attention that is unprecedented in recent days because it is usually held on millions of devices and is designed to become the first of April.
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