Experts in Race to Stop Conficker: Zombie Computers Set to go off April 1st
March 19, 2009
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[...] Experts in Race to Stop Conficker: Zombie Computers Set to go off – Chattahbox.com(ChattahBox)—The New York Times reported today, of the increasing international threat the Conficker computer worm poses as a tool for massive Internet crime and even to hack into governmental computer systems. The notorious computer worm was [...]
[...] Zen Trucking placed an observative post today on Experts in Race to Stop Conflicker: Zombie Computers Set to go off…Here’s a quick excerpt…more likely, the Conflicker author will sell pieces of the zombie botnet on the black market to cyber criminals to use for cloud computing… [...]
[...] Agnew’s Mind placed an observative post today on Experts in Race to Stop Conficker: Zombie Computers Set to go off…Here’s a quick excerpt…more likely, the Conficker author will sell pieces of the zombie botnet on the black market to cyber criminals to use for cloud computing… [...]
CONFICKER C
Md-5, sometimes known as the wer32 virus has attacked my PC for over 2 years. I gave up trying to fight it a couple of months ago. Now I find Conficker B is using Md-6, and RC4, as well as RSA and Md-6 the latest hash algorithm produced to date, “well well…”. Conficker B, the Downadup, or Kido, as it is sometimes called!!. A nasty bit of programing, It would have taken a grope the size of Microsoft’s programmers to write such a complicated intrusive virus?. “Did I say Microsoft?, well they are the only power big enough to do it, and to keep it running-uploading information from your set’s and mine.
And to keep the rest of the world from following the virus back to it’s headquarters”?. All the top Brains in the USA have failed to discover it’s Authors, and Origins. But Conficker C is powerful enough to become an offensive weapon, attacking Country’s it dislikes. Imagine the power of millions of PC’s aimed at your Country’s essential services, Electricity, Hospitals, army, and Government?. They all run on Computers these days. So in closing I think the main thing to find out, is not who!, but WHY, then find out who….
thanks to SRI INTERNATIONAL Computer Science Laboratory
MENLO PARK CA 94025 USA
Yours: Terry Morris.
[...] The Conficker worm is what’s known as a botnet, a massive collection of infected zombie computers that are programmed to call into a command center for instructions on how to spread its malware and spam. [...]