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Old 01-23-2009, 02:56 PM
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Arrow Security: Countdown to Conficker activation begins
John Leyden at UK's The Register writes:[FONT=Lucida Sans Unicode]
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Security watchers are bracing themselves to respond to the activitation of the huge botnet created by the Conficker superworm.
The malware has created a network of infected PCs under its control estimated at 9m or even more, according to the latest estimates - dwarfing the zombie army created by the infamous Storm worm, which reached a comparatively paltry 1m at its peak in September 2007.

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