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Conficker Keeps Growing And Growing

Conficker Keeps Growing And Growing

It might not be in the news any more, but the Conficker virus won’t go away, in fact it’s growing and growing.

Remember Conficker? Just a few short weeks ago it was the virus du jour, infecting thousands of computers. Then it dropped from the headlines – but it didn’t go away.

In fact, it’s estimated to still be infecting around 50,000 computers a day, according to Symantec researchers. Most of the infections are in the United States, Brazil and India, along with China, Mexico and Italy.

The researchers wrote:

Conficker Starts Waking Up

Conficker Starts Waking Up

April 1 may have come and gone without hordes of Conficker-infected zombie computers rising up from the Internet to take over the world, but that doesn’t mean the worm has gone away.

On April 7, Conficker’s authors began seeding a new version of the worm, and—as with previous versions—the update packs in new features designed to get around security patches and techniques employed to stop the worm. The new variant on Conficker, loosely dubbed Conficker.E, is apparently spreading via peer-to-peer networks (according to Trend Micro) and—very curiously—comes with an expiration date: May 3, 2009. That’s right: the latest version of the Conficker worm comes with its own shut-off date, and no one is sure why.

April 1 Comes and Goes…With Nary a Peep from Conficker

April 1 Comes and Goes...With Nary a Peep from Conficker

April 1 has turned into a certifiable day of lunacy for Internet pranksters, with even major companies like Google and Whole Foods Market getting in on the act with fake product announcements and features designed to make people grin. This year was promising to be a little different—at least according to mainstream media outlets—because the dreaded Conficker worm was schedule to “phone home” and receive new instructions on how to wreak havoc on the Internet and Web sites all around the world. But now it’s April 2, and the Conficker threat has largely failed to materialize.

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