Conficker Finally Does Something

Category: Bugs / Virus
Posted: April 9, 2009 12:31PM
Author: DLS2008

The Conficker worm has finally started to do something; however, it's still not doing much. The worm is now updating through peer-to-peer networks amongst infected computers. Trend Micro says that the infected computers have been updated with a new binary that instructs them to search for other unpatched computers that could become victims. The update also instructs Conficker to connect to common websites such as, MySpace and eBay, to make sure the machine is connected to the Internet. Also part of the update, more sites have now been blocked on top of the alreay blocked security company sites. The new update is also timed to stop on May 3rd, but it is unknown whether this will happen and what the result might be.

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