Wow, it’s been a busy week for the Conficker worm.  It was just a few hours ago that we posted the Conficker Eye Chart that you could use to see if your computer had been infected.
Now comes word that the Conficker worm “activated” over the weekend, as infected machines began to blast out spam messages [...]

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Is it the Conficker C worm or the Conflicker C worm?  Actually, the correct spelling is Conficker, no “L”, but it doesn’t matter.
All that really matters is that you are prepared.  The hype around the Conficker C worm has been tremendous.  It has affected over 9 million computers, Microsoft has offered $250,000 for anyone who [...]

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Early reports made it seem as though the Conficker C worm was all hype.  “No problems here,” seems to be the chorus of the day.  We knew this was coming today, however, and no one is laughing at Conficker now, however.
The Conficker C worm (AKA Conflicker virus) has wormed its way into VeriSign’s root servers.  [...]

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As we reported yesterday, the Conficker C worm (AKA “Conflicker”) is set to reappear on April Fools Day, and with a vengeance.
The Conficker C worm is expected to wreak havoc, with the BBC reporting that the new strain will randomly select 500 domain servers each day from a pool of 50,000.
Nominet, the registry operator for [...]

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The Conficker C worm is no joke.
As we have discussed here before, the April 1 virus (really it’s a worm) is spreading fast – it’s already infected between 5 million and 10 million computers. 
Microsoft is even offering a $250,000 reward to anyone who can stop it.
Now, a group of anti-worm researchers have teamed up [...]

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F-Secure’s chief research officer, Nikko Hypponen, told AP Digital in a phone interview that there’s currently an incredibly fast-spreading computer virus moving through the U.S., Europe and Asia. It has already infected as many as 9 million Windows-based computers. According to F-Secure, it is migrating “more rapidly through corporate networks than anything seen [...]

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