Microsoft Malware Protection Center: SIRv12: The obstinacy of Conficker

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By msft-mmpc
25 Apr 2012

Conficker is one of the most significant threat families facing organizations worldwide today; its initial impact along with its continued obstinacy shows that clearly. In the fourth quarter of 2011 – three years after its initial release – it attempted to infect just over 1.7 million computers. Conficker’s persistence is illustrated not only by the number of computers it has attempted to infect, but also by the nearly 59 million attacks launched against those computers in the fourth quarter of 2011. But perhaps the most interesting manifestation of its obstinacy is that it has been the number one threat facing businesses for the past two and a half years.

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