A nasty worm has wriggled into millions of computers and continues to spread. This worm, popularly known as “Conficker” or “Downadup”, has infected more than nine million computers by Tuesday and is spreading at a rate of one million machines daily.
Though this worm has yet to do noticeable damage, it has been debated that maybe it is impotent and is just waiting to detonate, or is a test – run by cybercriminals.
It is a self-replicating program, which takes advantage of networks or computers that isn’t updated with the security patches for Windows RPC Server Service.
It infects machines through the Internet or by hiding in USBs carrying data from one computer to another. Once in a computer it digs deep, setting up defenses that make it hard to extract.
