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How a Brainy Worm Might Jack the World's PCs on April 1
Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks —
From Gizmodo - On April 1, the Conficker worm will activate. And the scariest thing is that there are possibly millions of infected PCs waiting to be linked together on that date to do its bidding. The second scariest thing is that no one really knows what its creator is going to do with this virtual army on that date, when it's scheduled to contact a server for instructions. It's so bad, Microsoft has a running $250,000 bounty for the author, dead or alive. The NY Times suggests several possibilities, the most sinister being a "Dark ...
Linkpost | 3.26.2009
TechBlog —
... March 26, 2009 Linkpost | 3.26.2009 Updated 6:47 a.m. • Giz Explains: How a Brainy Worm Might Jack the World's PCs on April 1 - What you need to know about the potential of a Conficker apocalypse on on April Fool's Day. Also ...
Conficker: Apocalypse soon, or April Fools' joke?
TechBlog —
... do when it receives them? Most botnets -- and there are some that are bigger than Conficker -- are used to blast spam e-mail and even more malware across the Internet. They can also be used to flood a particular Web site with data, making it inaccessible to those who want to use it, in what's called a Denial of Service attack. Conficker's PCs could be told to do any of that and more . . . or, nothing at all may happen on Wednesday. Gizmodo has an excellent - if somewhat alarmist - roundup of what's known about Conficker. When you're done reading that, and if you're not ...
Winning Pwn2Own Hacker: Macs Are Safer Than PCs [Fight Night]
Gizmodo —
... Whatever OS you're running, the best thing you can do, he says, is to just keep your system up to date (then you won't get Conficker, either). And not be stupid. Since no anti-malware software would've stopped his exploit: ...
Breaking: Cranky Windows Guy's Day Ruined by "Really Nasty" Trojan on His PC [Windows]
Gizmodo —
Gizmodo's cranky Windows guy, Adam Frucci, just had the spring stolen from his dance step by a nasty trojan he discovered on his PC. I sure hope it's not it's not Conficker. Are Macs still too pricey, Adam? Time—what you're gonna spend getting that Trojan off your machine—is money, after all. [Twitter] P.S. I posted this from my trojan-free Windows desktop.
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11th-Hour Fix May Protect Huge Corporate Networks From Conficker Worm's Nastiness [Conficker]
Gizmodo —
... Zero-hour approaches for the awakening of the Conficker megaworm. As we explained, Conficker can evade detection like none before it. But ...
Reminder: How to Fix Conficker [Conficker]
Gizmodo —
Afraid you've got the evil Conficker worm that's already begun snaking its way around the world? Thanks to herculean efforts by researchers, the detection and fix is pretty easy. Symantec's got a pretty simple (and free) tool specifically for Conficker: Download this file on an uninfected computer, follow the steps, and you should be okay. (If you can't get to Symantec or other security sites, that's a good sign you've got Conficker.) [Symantec]
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How the Conficker Problem Just Got Much Worse [Conficker]
Gizmodo —
... And here's why that is deeply, deeply scary. As we explained, Conficker has built a zombie botnet infrastructure by registering hundreds of spam DNS names (askcw.com.ru, and the like), which it then links up and uses as nodes for infected machines to contact for instructions. In its earlier forms, Conficker attempted to register 250 such DNS names per day. But with the third version of the software, the Conficker.c variant which has been floating around for the last month or so, the number of spam DNS takeovers was boosted to 50,000 per day—a number security pros ...
