What I heard was it has been in the works for years.
It was first delivered to 'us' in 2000. It lights up
on April 1.
There are variants of it - the maker made a number of
them so it would be a mess to track them.
Martin
cavelamb wrote:
What's it going to be?
Y2K melodrama?
April Fools Day Joke?
Or
The End of the World?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker
http://www.networkworld.com/news/200...cker-worm.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...ome;topStories
As of 13 February 2009, Microsoft is offering a $250,000 USD reward for
information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individuals
behind the creation and/or distribution of Conficker