After an anti-climactic April’s Fool Day when the Conficker worm apparently failed to “phone home” for its dreaded instructions, its real purposes are now revealed. An analysis by the respected Kaspersky Labs concludes that the worm offers its victims a fake anti-virus product that will supposedly remove all malware for $49.95. It also downloads an email worm called Waledac, which steals passwords and sends spam.
Users should note that Conficker only affects Windows operating systems. Mac and Linux users are safe within the Mac OS part of their systems, and are vulnerable only within the Windows environments that they may run on their machines.
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