Conficker Downloads Payload

nk497 writes "Conficker seems to finally be doing something, a week after hype around the worm peaked on April Fool's Day. It has now downloaded components from the Waledac botnet, which could contain rootkit capabilities. Trend Micro security expert Rik Ferguson said: 'These components have so far been missing, but could this finally be the "other boot dropping" that we have all been been waiting for?' Ferguson also suggested that people behind Conficker could be the very same who are running Waledac and created the Storm botnet. 'It tallies with some of the assumptions people have made about Conficker — that the first variant was actively trying to avoid the Ukraine because Waledac was Eastern European,' Ferguson added."

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That's just ridiculous....

[tjstork]

One of the major causes of the Potato famine in Ireland was the reliance on a single product (the potato) and an inability to shift to a more varied diet

No, the cause of the potato famine in Ireland was because the British deliberately starved the people. At the time, Britain had trading policies in place the prevented the Irish from actually developing their own economy. Do you think they wanted to eat nothing but potatoes? It was all they had.

Now given that this homogeneity

If you want to have more varied products, then you need to oppose free trade, and incidentally, open source. That way, you could encourage the capital formation necessary to create multiple, regionally designed operating systems.