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Conficker Downloads Payload

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-the-best-name-ever dept.

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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  1. Finally? by KGIII · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's about damned time. Can we stop reading about this daily now?

    --
    "So long and thanks for all the fish."
  2. Blame Obama by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Obama has had his finger up his ass since day 1.
    Obama is soft on ship piracy, soft on muslims, soft on korean nuclear agression.
    Obama is a limp dick. He's soft.

    It is now time to impeach Obama.

    1. Re:Blame Obama by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Don't you actually have to be funny to be modded funny?

    2. Re:Blame Obama by ArsenneLupin · · Score: -1, Troll

      But boy, what a tall and handsome chap! And such a nice tan!

    3. Re:Blame Obama by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      and now Obama is going to make Angelina Jolie his Internet Guru because she was in the movie Hackers... lets just hope he doesn't put her in a blue dress and try to inject her with his worm/Trojan (tm).

  3. Re:april fools? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Half the world writes it 4/1 the other half 1/4

    Half? About one twentieth of the world (by population) writes it month/day or month/day/year

    Half of the important part of the world writes it 4/1, duh. Most of the world simply doesn't matter.