• So what happened to Conficker?

    Posted on April 3, 2009 at 08:56 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Lesley Stahl notwithstanding (don’t get me started – I saw the coverage on CNN, too, and was ready to throw my shoe through the TV), Conficker Day came and went with nary a peep.

    That’s reason to forget about Conficker, right?

    Well,  no. Actually, more than anything, it shows that the person (or people) behind Conficker is (are) very smart. They’ve changed their infection mechanism, making it much harder to crack, and they managed to slip in the update without triggering any alarms.

    You need to be very aware of Conficker. Some day, somebody is going to offer the person (people) who controls Conficker a great deal of money, and there’s no telling what they will do.

    So test your machine. Follow Brian Livingston’s advice and scrub your system. In the same way that I advised you to not worry about April 1, I’m also telling you that Conficker is a formidable problem that hasn’t gone away.

    It’s just sleeping. On about one million Windows XP PCs.

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