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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 ...
With a suspected April 1 trigger, Conficker is set to rear its ugly head again. eWEEK Labs examines the worm's potential for problems, and why the vulnerability it exploits should cause IT ...
CONFICKER IS NOT HAPPENING. IGNORE CONFICKER. By John Herrman Published April 1, 2009 | Comments (0) | ...
Conficker Set to Strike: Protect Yourself with These Tips and Tools By ABC News March 31, 2009, 9:15 AM ...
Conficker.C is a particularly nasty virus as it is capable of scanning and killing processes for security products including disabling firewalls, patch deployment, as well as antivirus software ...
The Conficker worm has been a hot topic for months as white hats and black hats have struggled to one-up each other. When security teams broke the randomization cypher Conficker uses and were able ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Conficker-Storm comparisons are inevitable, but for the moment, Conficker seems to be more under control than Storm was at this stage of its life. Hopefully things will stay that way.
It was the April 1 date hard-coded into Conficker.c that had some people on edge; today was when Conficker.c would be told to begin using a new method of reaching its command-and-control servers.
News Conficker Set to Strike: Protect Yourself with These Tips and Tools By Daniel Ionescu Mar 31, 2009 7:04 am PDT Graphic: Diego Aguirre ...