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

    Don't like worms.

  2. Obligatory by Zoxed · · Score: -1, Redundant

    But does it run under WINE ?

    1. Re:Obligatory by oodaloop · · Score: 0, Redundant

      I hope so. I've been trying for days to get it to work in Ubuntu. I tried sudo apt-get cornficker and that didn't work. I didn't see it in the repositories. Anyone know of a good way to install it?

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