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Conficker botnet installs scareware on infected computers

Source: Ryan Naraine @ ZDnet The Conficker botnet has stirred to life, using its peer-to-peer communication system to update itself and download scareware (fake anti-virus programs) to millions of infected Windows machines. The Conficker update comes a week after a … Continue reading

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