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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:follow the money. by Xest · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The police need to do something to help us."

    Help you? Hah, who do you think your are the RIAA? We all know the police's priorities are the content industry and kiddie porn.