Conficker worm: What will it do on April 1st? Closest call gets the tip?

On April 1st the Conficker worm will simply start taking more steps to protect itself. After that date, machines infected with the “C� Variant of the worm may not be able to get security updates or patches from Microsoft and from many other vendors.

The creators of the worm will also start using a communications system that is more difficult for security researchers to interrupt.

On April 1st the Conficker worm will simply start taking more steps to protect itself. After that date, machines infected with the “C” variant of the worm may not be able to get security updates or patches from Microsoft and from many other vendors. The creators of the worm will also start using a communications system that is more difficult for security researchers to interrupt.

I know it could steal personal information, wipe hard drives, spread e-mail fraud schemes or even do nothing but remain dormant for a future date. My guess is going to be that on April 1st it will do nothing but who knows what will happen after that date.

Because of the date, my guess is that it'll display a "funny" anti-Microsoft message. flickr.com/photos/oddsock/59718013/sizes/o.

I guess it will try to DDOS all the internet Root nameservers ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver ) Or it will try to DDOS a major internet site. ( most likely they will just use it to send spam ;-) ).

The Conficker worm is a computer worm that can infect your computer and spread itself to other computers across a network automatically, without human interaction.

Nothing on the 1st beyond activating the update process and then getting its instructions, which could allow for it to sit and wait until another day for action. At the most it will slow down network speeds while it runs through its list of potential update sites, numbering in the hundreds. ~Joey V.

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Conficker Worm will be April Fool’s Joke, rather than a Unthinkable Disaster. May be, Conficker’s authors could be planning to create a scheme like Freenet, the peer-to-peer system that was intended to make Internet censorship of documents impossible. Or perhaps the Conficker botnet’s masters have something more Machiavellian in mind.I.e.

€œDark Google. €? What if Conficker is intended to give the computer underworld the ability to search for data on all the infected computers around the globe and then sell the answers?

Malware already does this on a focused basis using a variety of schemes that are referred to as “spear phishing,� In a reference to the widespread use of social engineering tricks on the Net.

Conficker will simply update itself on infected machines on April 1st, receiving instructions of what to do next. I think this is gaining all of this hype in an attempt for the authors of this worm to profit. There is probably some underground type of auction where highest bidder will choose what will happen.

When there is a good offer on the table, something will happen. My guess, fake antimalware software telling machines they are infected, making people buy software that "removes" those viruses.

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