Tuesday, March 31, 2009
A hacker's April Fool's Day gift to the world
Posted by Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:27 PM
This worm doesn't need you to goof and download something malicious by accident — it can find vulnerable PCs on its own.
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.That's when many of the poisoned machines will get more aggressive about "phoning home" to the worm's creators over the Internet. When that happens, the bad guys behind the worm will be able to trigger the program to send spam, spread more infections, clog networks with traffic, or try and bring down Web sites.
Read the rest of this News14.com article here.
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