April 1, 2009 by James Oliver
If you’ve been paying attention to the tech press over the last few days, you might have seen the slightly sensationalised claims about the Conficker.c Worm. For the uninitiated, the Conficker.c Worm is the computer security threat that has been built into an apocalyptic scare over the last few days. The Conficker.c Worm is a risk, in fact it’s the largest botnet ever seen though people’s fears have been overblown over the last few days.
A main feature of the coverage has been the supposed activation of the worm at midnight on April the first (Last night). This event was expected to turn the estimated ten million Conficker.c infected computers into fully infected agents for sending spam messing with the very structure of the Internet.
The good news is that the infrastructure is fine, the Internet is working as well as usual and is in no danger of failing. As expected really – even if the spammers behind Conficker.c had the power to crash the Internet, as spammers would it really be in their interests?
Basically, for all the hyperbole that’s been flying around recently Conficker.c is just a worm, a very widespread one, but a worm nonetheless. We’ll probably see an increase in spam over the coming weeks but that should be it.
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