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Conficker – The Little Worm That Didn’t?

Posted on April 1, 2009August 25, 2014 by

So today is April 1st, which means a bevy of April Fools gags. This year we saw the Gmail Autopilot and the discontinuation of the Blackberry Storm and upside down Youtube to name a few. If you have been listening to the Internets lately, there’s also something big that’s supposed to be going on, and that’s…

What is the Conficker Worm & What Does it Do?

Posted on March 30, 2009October 9, 2015 by

Webnames.ca Staff

The Conficker worm, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, is scheduled to activate on April 1, 2009; however the first series of infections attributed to the Conficker worm were detected back in November 2008. A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program. It uses a network to send copies of itself to other nodes (computers on…