Posted on 01/26/2011 7:20:07 AM PST by decimon
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – A unified effort has lopped the head off a treacherous Conficker computer worm but the malicious computer code lives on in infected machines.
A Conficker Working Group report available online on Tuesday said the alliance has prevented the people who released the worm from using it to command computers as an army of machines referred to as a "botnet."
"Nearly every person interviewed for this report said this aspect of the effort has been successful," the group said in a summary of its findings.
The group considered is biggest failure as "the inability to remediate infected computers and eliminate the threat of the botnet."
Despite efforts to eradicate Conficker, variations of the worm remain on more than five million computers, according to the report.
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A task force assembled by Microsoft has been working to stamp out Conficker, also referred to as DownAdUp, and the software colossus placed a bounty of 250,000 dollars on the heads of those responsible for the threat.
The author of Conficker has not been caught, but hints in the code have led some researchers to suspect the culprit lived in Eastern Europe.
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Get Root !
Ahmmm....
Those computer worms look like larva to me
Re: mother board with worms. You just had to know this was coming.....
FYI
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