The http://mtc.sri.com web site has a report that is quite detailed about the Conficker worm. You can find it at http://mtc.sri.com/Conficker/addendumC/
Steve Gibson read this on Security Now podcast Episode #193. It shows how complex this worm is.
"Conficker C is in fact a robust and secure distribution utility
for distributing malicious content and binaries to millions of computers across the
Internet. This utility incorporates a potent arsenal of methods to defend itself from
security products, updates, and diagnosis tools. It further demonstrates the rapid
development pace at which Conficker's authors are maintaining their current foothold on
a large number of Internet-connected hosts. Further, if organized into a coordinated
offensive weapon, this multimillion-node botnet poses a serious and dire threat to the
Internet."
The best protection from this worm is running Windows updates EVERY Tuesday when the new updates are released. Keep your anti virus up to date.
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