This week has been off to a greeaatt start…thanks to Tiger-M@te hacking thousands of websites, and now “Conficker”! For three years now, cornficker has been a busy little worm, multiplying quietly around the Internet, fornicating with computers and leaving behind its nasty virus.

It’s estimated that Conficker may have infected as many as 12 million computers worldwide.

Once infected, control of your operating system is turned over remotely. All the computer systems that have been infected by Conficker are known as a “botnet,” and together are powerful enough to overtake networks such as:

• your bank
• your telephones
• your security systems
• your plane’s air traffic control system
• and your Internet

Remember the hosting servers that were hacked a couple days ago? Remember what it felt like to open a website and see the black page of Tiger-M@te staring back at you?

Now imagine the ENTIRE Internet crashing! That, my friend is a very real possibility.

But it gets worse.

Conficker Computer Fornication

Nobody knows who created Conficker, or what Conficker’s real purpose is.

Since 2008 when Conficker was discovered at Stanford, worldwide computer security experts formed (the Conficker Working Group) to stop the bot with no success.

Not only is Conficker a threat to our personal computers, it is still infecting big networks within corporations, the FBI, and the Pentagon, to boot!

Oh yea…one other thing. If you have a botnet the size that Conficker is STILL creating, you could effectively use it to crack security codes at Amazon.com, and YOUR bank accounts, for instance. YOUR personal information, social security numbers…basically ALL of your information is at risk.

There is no security system currently that couldn’t be breached by the botnet that has been created by Conficker…And it continues to spread each day. That, my friend, is Conficker Computer Fornication!

Please utilize a condom while surfing these virus infested waters we call the Internet!

Resources: Conficker Working Group, Conficker Eye Chart, Microsoft Saftey and Security Center, McAfee: Protecting Yourself from the Conficker Worm

Tagged as: Conficker, hack, netbot, virus, worm

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