The Conficker worm is stirring.  Something is happening for sure, but no one is exactly sure what it is. In the first few minutes of April 1, it turns out Conflicker actually DID do something.  It successfully called home for an update. The immediate result wasn’t instant doomsday.  Instead, it got smart – the update [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Microsoft has had enough.  Last week, the Conflicker Virus (A.K.A. Conficker C worm) actually crippled the French Air Force. Today, Microsoft announced that they are offering a $250,000 reward for the folks behind the Conflicker Virus. The nasty little worm is said to have affected over 15,000,000 PC’s around the globe.  The Conficker Virus opens [...]

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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 in years.” [...]

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