04-01-2009, 05:28 PM
Also, this did happen, nothing bad has been done yet:
On Wednesday, a master computer gained control of an estimated 5 million "zombie" PCs infected with the worm, experts said.
Conficker's motive is probably financial, they said. The worm's author could steal financial information, shut down Web pages, track keystrokes or send spam from infected computers.
"They have full administrative-level rights to run anything they want on all of the infected machines," said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for F-Secure, an Internet security company.
They pretty much have control of the world's largest BotNet and could do almost anything they wanted with it anytime in the future as long as all those computers remain infected.
On Wednesday, a master computer gained control of an estimated 5 million "zombie" PCs infected with the worm, experts said.
Conficker's motive is probably financial, they said. The worm's author could steal financial information, shut down Web pages, track keystrokes or send spam from infected computers.
"They have full administrative-level rights to run anything they want on all of the infected machines," said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for F-Secure, an Internet security company.
They pretty much have control of the world's largest BotNet and could do almost anything they wanted with it anytime in the future as long as all those computers remain infected.
"What you are about to see is top secret. Do not tell my mother."