Conficker botnet could flood Web with spam

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

"Windows PCs infected with the Conficker worm have turned into junk mail-spewing robots
capable of sending billions of spam messages a day, a security company warned today.

According to Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based antivirus firm, yesterday's update to Conficker,
which in some cases was accompanied by the Waledac spam bot, has resulted in a floodtide of junk e-mail.

"In just 12 hours, one bot alone sent out 42,298 spam messages," said Kaspersky researcher Alex Gostev in a message 
Friday."
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More at
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131448

Note: Kaspersky's Gostev was interviewed on 10th Apr

Juha-Matti
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