Friday, 12 June 2009

Conficker worm

This worm can block the actions software designed to scan for its presence.

believed to have infected 3 million computers.

Every day,it searches for urls it can register, so computers visiting those websites can be infected.

Lately a spam programme called Waledac and a fake antivirus programme called Spyware Protect 2009 has been added on.

Microsoft have offered a £250,000 reward for information about the creators of this worm.

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