Conficker's Anticlimactic Purpose Revealed!
It seems that Conficker's ultimate purpose has finally been revealed!
Drum roll please!
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It's a spam bot!
Yes, that's right. Despite huge amounts of hysteria painting Conficker as some world destroying super spy doomsday botnet, it seems Conficker's makers are a little more practical and therefore... money driven.
According to a report by Karpersky Labs, the purpose of the mysterious download by Conficker machines on April 1 has been revealed as a directive to send out spam offering users a fake anti virus programme for $49.95.
Yep, it's peddling snake oil spam.
How anticlimactic, but money makes the world go round, neh?
Conficker Doomsday Worm Sells Out For $49.95 [Wired]
Den Den Boy
Posted to Hot Stuff, In the News, On Your Desk on 10 April 2009
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3D iPhone glasses. Why?
No one who understood what Conficker is "panicked." Which explains the "hysteria" expressed by the press, notorious for reporting without caring about or understanding even the basic facts.
The most egregious error by the press was stating something really bad would happen on April 1st so you better fix this NOW. The ONLY thing Conficker was programmed to do was to look for further instructions on that date.
Now, those instructions COULD have been bad, or they could have been nothing, or they could be something stupid (and completely predictable) like "turn into a spambot."
No one knew what it would do (except the morons responsible), but that didn't stop the doomsday predictions my OTHER morons. :)