Confounded Conflicker

March 27th, 2009

Our local news ran a story that made April 1 sound more scary than Y2K in 1999.

Worries that the notorious Conficker worm will somehow rise up and devastate the Internet on April 1 are misplaced, security experts said Friday.

Conficker is thought to have infected more than 10 million PCs worldwide, and researchers estimate that several million of these machines remain infected. If the criminals who created the network wanted to, they could use this network to launch a very powerful distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against other computers on the Internet.

Read the rest at Yahoo! Tech.

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