Reports are trickling in about the impact from the Conficker worm, as infected systems passed zero hour at midnight and began downloading additional malicious components.  Here’s a quick roundup of some of the more notable incidents caused by Conficker so far, according to published reports: A nuclear missile installation near Elmendorf Air force Base outside […]

I found this live blog regarding the Conficker for those of you interested in tracking it’s progress through the evening.  Apparently there are some outside reports of various locations in Asia seeing some light effects from the variant but nothing too heavy.  Hopefully we all wake up in the morning and laugh about it… You […]

Honestly I am getting ready to go to bed and sleep easy tonight, but before I do, I figured I would throw another log on the fire for those that want to stay up tonight and panic about the Conficker worm, here’s a survival guide by Christopher Null from Yahoo Tech in regards to the […]

email saying lookout that there is a bad virus that will hit your computer on April 1st this year, there might actually be something to that rumor.  This Conficker variant, which has been around for a while now, is apparently touting a launch date of April 1st now in some variants that are showing up… […]

Apparently Microsoft is looking to shut down the hackers who developed the Conicker aka Downadup Virus.  They are so serious that they have offered a $250,000 reward leading to the arrest and conviction of the developer.  I don’t recall Microsoft ever doing this before, wonder what it is about this virus that gives them the […]