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A New Conficker?
Posted by Kimberly Veautour on April 10, 2009 in Technology News
Conficker, the much-hyped worm that was supposed to trigger on April 1st but didn’t, has evolved dare I say it…..again. Multiple sources are now reporting a new variant of Conficker called WORM_DOWNAD.E by Trend Micro and W32/Confick-D by Sophos. This new strand of Conficker has an activation date of May 3rd. So here we go [...]
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Conficker Computer Worm, Horrible or Hype? April Fool’s Day Trouble?
Posted by Kimberly Veautour on March 30, 2009 in Internet News
The extremely quick moving Conficker computer worm, is set to come to life again on Wednesday. Wednesday, April Fools day, is when many of the previously affected computers will activate and come alive. They will start phoning home to the creators where they in turn will be able to activate a program to spam, send, [...]