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**dhrishiasv** · 03-30-2009, 02:55 PM

Vexing computer worm to evolve on April Fool's Day
Mar 29 03:15 AM US/Eastern

A tenacious computer worm which has wriggled its way onto machines worldwide is set to evolve on April Fool's Day, becoming harder to exterminate but not expected to wreak havoc.

A task force assembled by Microsoft has been working to stamp out the worm, referred to as Conficker or DownAdUP, and the US software colossus has placed a bounty of 250,000 dollars on the heads of those responsible for the threat.

The worm is programmed to modify itself on Wednesday to become harder to stop, according to Trend Micro threat researcher Paul Ferguson, who is part of the Conficker task force.

"There is no evidence of it going into attack mode or dropping any particular payload on April 1st," Ferguson said in an interview.

"What people controlling the botnet are doing is building in survivability because of efforts by the good guys to lessen the harm of this thing."

The worm, a self-replicating program, takes advantage of networks or computers that haven't kept up to date with security patches for Windows RPC Server Service.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

Pricks.

03-30-2009, 02:55 PM	#1
dhrishiasv Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 501 Senior Member	Vexing computer worm to evolve on April Fool's Day Vexing computer worm to evolve on April Fool's Day Mar 29 03:15 AM US/Eastern A tenacious computer worm which has wriggled its way onto machines worldwide is set to evolve on April Fool's Day, becoming harder to exterminate but not expected to wreak havoc. A task force assembled by Microsoft has been working to stamp out the worm, referred to as Conficker or DownAdUP, and the US software colossus has placed a bounty of 250,000 dollars on the heads of those responsible for the threat. The worm is programmed to modify itself on Wednesday to become harder to stop, according to Trend Micro threat researcher Paul Ferguson, who is part of the Conficker task force. "There is no evidence of it going into attack mode or dropping any particular payload on April 1st," Ferguson said in an interview. "What people controlling the botnet are doing is building in survivability because of efforts by the good guys to lessen the harm of this thing." The worm, a self-replicating program, takes advantage of networks or computers that haven't kept up to date with security patches for Windows RPC Server Service. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1 Pricks.
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