Security experts eye worm attack

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Okay let me rephrase that, "the way it'll work on the 15M computers is just part of the April Fools joke." happy?

B...B...B...But, it did change the way it worked It doubled it's attempt to phone home for commands from it's creator.

But yeah, you can easily make a program which will execute a command(s) on a set date and time. I did it with a simple program a while ago, every day at Noon my entire network had a message popup saying they were looking at porn and needed to stop

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I doubt it changed the way it works as someone posted a link a few pages in saying that it didn't happen or whatever

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Sorry, took me a while to find it :S Read it on my cellphone, didn't know where on the internet it'd be.

The malicious Conficker Internet worm got more aggressive about trying to reach its creators Wednesday, but computer security researchers appeared correct in their predictions that the effects would be muted.
The worm's programming included a change in tactics on April 1: The estimated 3 million to 12 million computers infected by Conficker were told to step up their attempts to "phone home" for commands. But that seemed to be the only sign of life from the bug.

So, it did actually change it's tactics, but not to the mass effect that everyone thought it would be.

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/co...onficker_N.htm

Nice having a little constructive debate on this.