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Supposedly, it ain't hitting hard in Asia (it's a full business day over there right now), which, along with Europe, accounts for 76% of the infectionsfrom this virus.
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[h3]Tracking Conficker: So far, it's a snoozer[/h3]
It's already April 1 in Asia, where the plurality of infected Conficker PCs are apparently located. Early reports on the Windows computer worm, which was supposed to start looking at500 Internet domains for new instructions, show that not much is happening initially.
From PCMag.com:
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[h3]Tracking Conficker: So far, it's a snoozer[/h3]
From PCMag.com:
The "Conficker" worm is live within Australia, security vendors have confirmed, where it is April 1. At this point, however, it remains quiescent.
Security company Trend Micro has seen the Conficker or Downadup worm increase the number of DNS resolutions, as expected, said Paul Ferguson, the lead researcher for security intelligence, advanced threats research. At this point, however, the worm has taken no other action.
Conficker is expected to hit the United States on Wednesday, April 1. But it is already a day ahead across the international date line, where Conficker is waking up.
At Information Week, the story's the same:
It's April 1 in Asia and Australia at the moment, and the Conficker worm is busily expanding the list of domains from which it seeks instructions.
The results so far recall the Y2K crisis: lots of worry but not much impact.
"Conficker has activated," said Patrik Runald, chief security adviser at F-Secure, in a blog post on Tuesday. "So far nothing has actually happened."
John Markoff at the New York Times says researchers believe Conficker is trying to communicate with a central server:
Members of an informal global alliance of computer security specialists who have been attempting to eradicate a malicious software program known as Conficker said Tuesday that they were seeing early attempts by the program to communicate with a control server. The researchers said they were uncertain if the program had been successful.
There's been a lot of hysterical coverage ofConficker, and while it's smart to keep your Windows computerspatched and your antivirus software up to date, there's no real need to panic. But the hype has caused malware writers to take notice, and themakers of bogus antispyware products - which are themselves spyware - are starting to tout fake Conficker cleaners that are actually malicious programs themselves. There are alsosome poisoned search results on Google you'll want to avoid.
I'll be keeping an eye out for new developments, and will post them here as I find them. But so far, it's looking like a snoozer.