Whatever Happened to the Conficker Worm?

Author: Ryan Naraine

July 27, 2009 7:37 pm

From CNN (John D. Sutter)

Remember Conficker? The hugely talked-about computer worm seemed poised to wreak havoc on the world’s machines on April Fool’s Day. And then … nothing much happened.
But while the doom and gloom forecast for the massive botnet — a remotely controlled network that security experts say infected about 5 million computers — never came to pass, Conficker is still making some worm hunters nervous. Read the full story [cnn.com]

From CNN (John D. Sutter)

Remember Conficker? The hugely talked-about computer worm seemed

poised to wreak havoc on the world’s machines on April Fool’s Day. And then … nothing much happened.

But while the doom and gloom forecast for the massive botnet — a remotely controlled network that security experts say infected about 5 million computers — never came to pass, Conficker is still making some worm hunters nervous. Read the full story [cnn.com]