Conficker-created connections could confound consumers
The Conficker worm has yet to eclipse Storm in terms of the total amount of chaos it created at any one time, but the botnet is proving annoyingly hard to kill. What began as an infection that took advantage of a handful of businesses with extremely slow patch validation cycles has become (and maintained itself) as a significant threat.
This has undoubtedly caused much wailing and gnashing of teeth within the halls of Microsoft itself; the company released a security update to resolve the flaw Conficker relies upon (MS08-67) in October, well before Conficker itself appeared. security researchers have examined how Conficker phones home for updates and have determined that at least four legitimate domains are going to be targeted by thousands of botnet systems requesting instructions in the weeks ahead.
