The Conficker worm’s creators are evidently toying with ways to put the pervasive computer virus to work firing off spam or spreading rogue anti-virus applications called “scareware”. An April update sent to a tiny percentage of infected computers had the machines retrieve components of notorious Storm and Waledac worms unleashed in past years to create […]

What is the Swine Flu Computer Virus? Japan has reported no human cases of deadly swine flu so far – but a computer virus of the same name has been spreading on the Internet in recent days, authorities warned on Thursday. Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) said on its website that a suspicious

An estimated one to two million computers worldwide are infected with Conficker Computer security top guns around the world watched warily as the dreaded Conficker worm squirmed deeper into infected machines with the arrival of an April 1st trigger date. The malicious software evolved, as expected, from East to West, beginning in time zones first

Conficker Worm is Active As many as 12 million computers have been infected by Conficker The dreaded Conficker computer worm is stirring. Security experts say the worm’s authors appear to be trying to build a big moneymaker, but not a cyber weapon of mass destruction as many people feared. As many as 12 million computers

Conficker Worm is not Playing the Fool Conficker had been programmed to reach out to 250 websites daily The Conficker worm’s April 1st trigger date came and went without the bedevilling computer virus causing any mischief but security specialists warn that the threat is far from over. Conficker did just what the “white hats” tracking