Conficker Turns One, 7 Million Infections and Counting!
by Don Fosen on Nov.03, 2009, under Microsoft, Security Updates
The Conficker worm has been around for a year now and is currently infecting an estimated seven million computers. Although we are still not sure exactly Conficker does, it has the insidious capability of spreading itself through a network once it has compromised one computer in the network. Microsoft has issued patches but apparently not everybody has applied them, especially in large corporate environments. This is one of the reasons we stress how important it is to keep up on Windows Updates.
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