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Conficker Worm Could Create World's Biggest Botnet

Posted by kdawson on from the holding-our-collective-breath dept.

nk497 writes "The worm that's supposedly infected almost nine million PCs running Windows, dubbed Cornficker or Downadup, could lead to a massive botnet, security researchers have said. The worm initially spread to systems unpatched against MS08-067, but has since 'evolved and is now able to spread to patched computers through portable USB drives through brute-force password-guessing.'"

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  1. Re:I for one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I say... TEQUILA!

  2. Re:follow the money. by montyzooooma · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    agreed 100%. until some serious pound me in the ass prison time is handed out to more than a few of these guys, it won't stop.

    Exactly! After all that's how they managed to stop illegal drugs. Oh...

  3. Re:Attention Windows Clickarounds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Illiterate, photoshopping, sheep of a corporation that hinders developers? You must be talking about "two buttons = too hard" Mac users...