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April Fools' Day is no joke to Windows: Conficker to Phone Home on April Fools'
Day
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| Symantec Corp.'s Vincent Weafer, vice president of the company's security
| response group, agreed with Stewart that it's impossible to know ahead of
| time what stunt Conficker's controllers will pull next week. "Nobody has any
| real idea," said Weafer. "There's no indication of what it will do April 1."
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| Conficker, which is also called Downadup by some security companies, first
| appeared late last year, and originally exploited a Windows vulnerability
| that Microsoft Corp. patched in an October 2008 emergency update. In early
| 2009, the next version -- Conficker.b -- infected millions of PCs in just a
| few days.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/161809/conficker_to_phone_home_on_april_fools_day.html?tk=rss_news
Related:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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