blogs.chron.com - 4/1/2009
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It's already April 1 in Asia, where the plurality of infected Conficker PCs are apparently located. Early reports on the Windows computer worm, which was supposed to start looking at 500 Internet domains for new instructions, show that not much...
pandalabs.pandasecurity.com - 3/27/2009
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pandalabs.pandasecurity.com —
Lately it seems everybody is talking about Conficker
and its variants. And much more so if we...
have to take into account the build up fear around the coming day of April 1st. It’s been a while since we saw so much coverage in the general ...
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Don’t get taken in by the Conficker panic
mtc.sri.com - 3/25/2009
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mtc.sri.com —
Implications of Variant C Variant C represents the
third major revision of the Conficker malware family, which...
first appeared on the Internet on 20 November 2008. C distinguishes itself as a significant revision to Conficker B. In fact, we estimate ...
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An Analysis of Conficker C
f-secure.com - 4/4/2009
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f-secure.com —
As we posted Conficker Q&A prior to April
1st it wouldn't be right if we didn't do...
one after the event. Q: First off, how do I know if I'm infected? A: Joe Stewart has created a very simple test that's available at the Conficker Working Group's ...
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Post April 1st Conficker Q&A
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1Word for April 1st, 2009
Technologizer —
... [NOTE: Response to Technologizer's 5Words has been terrific, but many readers have told us that they think even five-word descriptions of stories are too wordy and wasteful. So as of today, we're relaunching the feature as 1Word. Terse enough for ya? If not, we'd be happy to go to monosyllabic words--just let us know.]
Uneventful.
Imitative.
Multilingual.
Fired!
Banned.
Tiny.
Fraudulent.
Bankrupt.
Amusing!
Buggy. ...
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