Conficker Virus Worm in Microsoft windows os. Saturday, April 18, 2009. Conficker worm spikes, infects 1. 1 million PCs in 24 hours. The Conficker worm is back with a vengeance, infecting over one million systems in the past 24 hours. The refined version of this malware scans networks for weakly protected machines and actively attempts to spread itself via USB thumb drives. Neither feature was present in the original version, and so far, the attack is working. Roger has provided some additional coverage o.

The Web Protection Service Of conficker worm and its variants. As you may recall Conficker is a worm that spreads via networks and USB drives. It attempts to brute force usernames and passwords and takes advantage of Server Service vulnerability in Windows which allows for remote code execution. The worm also auto-updates itself every day from a long list of URLs so it looks like its preparing for a larger attack. As a curiosity I was .