UPDATE: Department of Homeland Security has released Worm Detection Tool
The Conficker Internet worm could strike at infected computers around the world on April 1, a security expert warned Monday.
Conficker is a sophisticated piece of malicious computer software, or malware, that installs itself on a Windows PC’s hard drive via specially written Web pages. It then conceals itself on a computer.
my god! is true? but my only question is, how can we protect our computers from the said virus?
smack everyone who doesn’t regularly update their computers or who doesn’t keep their antivirus up to date (it is because of their laziness that this virus causes problems, the other 90% who keep their computers up to date won’t suffer directly, rather they will suffer the indirect effects of those machines by way of network congestion and more spam and perhaps downtime due to relying on some of those compromised computers for server tasks or webhosting). besides that, wonder why nobody has bothered to find the author of this virus when locating him is as simple as monitoring the connections each individual virus makes. its not easy, but with a government that has megacomputers at their disposal, there is simply no excuse for letting this cause any more problems