SAN FRANCISCO -- The fast-moving Conficker computer worm, a scourge of the Internet that has infected at least 3 million PCs, is set to spring to life in a new way on Wednesday -- April Fools' Day ...

CONFICKER IS NOT HAPPENING. IGNORE CONFICKER. By John Herrman Published April 1, 2009 | Comments (0) | ...

The Conficker computer worm put the world on edge, threatening machines that run Microsoft Windows. Here's a list of some of the most famed computer hackers since the invention of the first virus.

Conficker’s true potential for damage and destruction is simply not known, and won’t be until its mastermind puts his creation to work -- whether that’s as part of another huge cloud of ...

A more recent post on Conficker, updated April 1, here The Conficker virus continues to make sensational headlines, mostly of The-End-Is-Nigh variety. Most recent news accounts -- most prominently ...

Based on what we've seen today, the answer is a very cautious "maybe." Conficker is awake and has been seen "in the wild" as various infected systems reached out to the control servers for data ...

The Conficker worm. With the global botnet programmed to accept new instructions beginning today, The New York Times called it an "unthinkable disaster" in the making. CBS’s 60 Minutes said the ...

Because Conficker debuted last fall, it hasn’t done much besides concentrate on spreading and blocking access to antimalware vendor sites. But Peterson believes Conficker was designed with the ...

News Analysis: The Conficker worm affected users nearly one year ago. But now that it has left the headlines, there might be a false sense of security in the Windows ecosystem. There shouldn't be ...

The Conficker worm is supposed to take active steps on Wednesday to protect itself against detection and removal. But if you use Mac OS X you have nothing to worry about -- unless you also use ...

Conficker's own version of MS08-67 was good enough to fool vulnerability scanners, a fact which made the already-tedious job of verifying that one's network was clean even worse.

Around March 24, researchers monitoring the worm noticed that an imaging machine was reaching out over the Internet to get instructions — presumably from the programmers who created Conficker.