Mar 27 2009
Conficker has gotten more than its share of coverage as probably the most important malware in the last year, but this next week will see a whole lot more. The latest variant of the worm, Conficker.C, is programmed to do something on April 1. Exactly what it’s going to do and how big a deal it will be for all of us, nobody can really say for sure.
The A and especially B variants of this worm (also known as Downadup) built a botnet in the several million system range, almost exclusively through exploitation of the MS08-067 vulnerability in Windows. Conficker…
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