I’ve had quite a few people tell me, well it didn’t do anything? The media blew it all out of proporation, after all isn’t that the media’s job?
Estimated up to 12 Million Infected Machines World Wide! (Trend Micro)
Well it wasn’t blown out of proportion. The conflicker worm has already infected well over a million computers world wide. Some have it upwards 10 million computers. I don’t think it was blown out of proportion, if anything I believe it has opened a few eyes. Have you made sure your updated on all your software?
PATCH PATCH PATCH
If you run a windows operating system, you MUST keep your machine updated at all times. This is not a suggestion, this is not an idea, this is a fact. If you do not, you will be infected if not by the conflicker worm, by something. Can you believe there are companies that are still running windows NT and Windows 95!
A Microsoft executive calls the ease with which two British e-crime specialists managed to hack into a Windows XP computer as both “enlightening and frightening.”
Conflicker… is this the new Storm Worm?
So now we just sit back and wait to see what it is going to do? Some say it has began hijacking PC’s asking the user to pay $50 to get a fix. Using popups to fool the user into thinking it is a valid anti virus program. Others have said it has started to send spam, I can’t confirm either. Only time will tell…
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