{"id":26278,"date":"2009-04-04T20:15:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T20:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/04\/did-conflicker-flop-yes-why-no\/"},"modified":"2009-04-04T20:15:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T20:15:28","slug":"did-conflicker-flop-yes-why-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/04\/did-conflicker-flop-yes-why-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Conflicker Flop? Yes.  Why?  Nobody knows."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Contrary to what some have suggested, the worm did, in fact, do what it was expected to do &#8212; it activated, giving the worm-masters full administrator-level control over some five million infected PCs, and making itself much more difficult to detect and fight. The worm generates URLs by which the master computer communicates with infected machines, constantly staying ahead of the efforts of security experts to shut them down. Beginning yesterday, the botnet began communicating over 50,000 domain names in 116 countries &#8212; a dramatic increase over the 250 URLs used by previous versions of the the worm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxjournal.com\/content\/conficker-conflunks\">source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Experts expect that the worm is going to re-awaken at some time in the future and possibly actually do something.  In the mean time, you ma want to get rid of it if is on your system.<\/p>\n<p>If you run Windows, the best way to get rid of the computer is to get a Mac or a Linux computer.  There are probably other ways to do this but I don&#8217;t really care.  If you are running Linux, this worm can&#8217;t directly affect you.  But if you have a network with some windows computers on it, from the Linux perspective, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxjournal.com\/content\/detecting-conficker-linux-tools\">you can do this to deal with the worm on your network. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to what some have suggested, the worm did, in fact, do what it was expected to do &#8212; it activated, giving the worm-masters full administrator-level control over some five million infected PCs, and making itself much more difficult to detect and fight. The worm generates URLs by which the master computer communicates with infected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/04\/did-conflicker-flop-yes-why-no\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Did Conflicker Flop? Yes.  Why?  Nobody knows.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6PQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}