Conficker: a good excuse for an early spring cleaning

good article on zdnet on conflicker.from the article:
"Some of you have probably heard about Conficker.C, the computer virus/worm that is set to activate on April 1st. Conficker.C exploits a particular vulnerability in Windows that was announced in October of 2008 which allows code to be remotely executed. Nobody exactly knows what Conficker.C is supposed to do on April 1st, other than receive and and execute instructions from various remote systems, but it is presumed that infected computers will become minions of some huge botnet, with some nefarious purpose such as a large denial of service attack on a singular or group of entities or perhaps steal huge quantities of personal information. Or wipe everyone’s hard disks."
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