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Ten Million+ Infections Strong, Conficker Worm Prepares for April 1 Update
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Posted by Donster on: 2009-03-27 15:59:42 282
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The worm that won't go away will get an upgrade on April 1
By Jason Mick @ DailyTech
The Conficker worm has been wreaking havoc on internet users ever since it climbed out of its slimy hole in the internet's dark nether-regions back in 2008. Now the worm is about to get even more dangerous when it receives its latest refresh in a series of periodic updates on April 1. Security officials are bracing for the impact that the upgrade might have.
Either diabolical or brilliant, it's the Conficker worm's unique design that allowed it infect over 8 million business computers last year and scores of other individual users. The worm, like many viruses, is regularly evolving thanks to periodic downloads. However, the techniques it uses to do so are rather unique -- it cleverly creates thousands of false domains daily to throw off investigators. On the update day, it selects 500 correct domains out of the 50,000 candidates to download malware and updates from.
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