What will happen on Wednesday?
Right now, Conficker is programmed to reach out to 250 websites daily to download commands from its master. On Wednesday, it will reach out to 50,000 websites for daily instructions! (Source: yahoo.com) In response to international safety concerns, the US Department of Homeland Security has created a tool that is able to detect whether a computer is infected by the Conficker worm. The tool was developed by the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). While only partial details have been released to the public, officials did announce that “DownAdUP” was unlike any other Conficker-detection tool, in that it is free to use and the most comprehensive version to date. There is a catch, however. The tool is only available for important enterprises like federal and state government institutions and private sector networks. According to US-CERT, their main focus is to limit the cyber risks of the most critical networks in the nation first, before addressing the concerns of the average e
