Dark Reading: Microsoft: Conficker Worm Remains 'Ongoing' Threat

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Three-year-old 'dead' Windows worm infection is still spreading -- mainly via weak or stolen passwords, new Microsoft report says

Apr 25, 2012
By Kelly Jackson Higgins

The orphaned botnet worm Conficker spread to 1.7 million Windows machines worldwide by the end of last year despite a major industry initiative led by Microsoft over the past three years that neutered it.

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