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[Christopholofigus]

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The Conficker worm today has begun to phone home for instructions but has done little else. Conficker was programmed to today begin actively visiting 500 out of 50,000 randomly generated web addresses to receive new instructions on how to behave. Conficker has begun to do this, according to security company F-Secure, but so far no doomsday scenarios have emerged.

Read it all here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/162381/conf...me_quietly.html

[Nvyseal]

all seems safe at home and work

[m.oreilly]

maybe, but my bank account is showing a withdrawal from a scottish ip... i just knew that browser test was creepy! they're always after me lucky charms !!!

[Christopholofigus]

Okay, an update:

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The Conficker botnet has stirred to life, using its peer-to-peer communication system to update itself and download scareware (fake anti-virus programs) to millions of infected Windows machines.

Read up on it over at Ziff Davis http://blogs.zdnet.c...ecurity/?p=3110