According to Qualys “25 of every 1,000 systems are currently infected with the worm,” Keizer reports. “Conficker’s botnet — anywhere between four and seven millions machines — is still intact, and by Qualys’ reckoning, significant numbers of PCs are still be vulnerable to attack.”
Keizer reports, “On last week’s one-year anniversary of the April 1 doomsday deadline, officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the agency was preparing a report on the global struggle to keep Conficker at bay. Dubbed the Conficker Working Group, the collection of security experts and Internet domain authorities tried to cripple the worm by blocking it from updating its botnet. ‘In terms of learning, it’s been a great success,’ Rodney Joffe, a member of the group, told the IDG News Service’s Bob McMillan last week. ‘In terms of defeating Conficker, it’s gotten us nowhere.'”
Full article here.
Conficker
Just change the I to a U.
This is the point, I always hear that Macs are secure through obscurity, but so what? Even if that were true, I’ve been a Mac user for only about 7 years, but I’ve not had any security problems, and even if Mac security was massively compromised tomorrow I’d still have had all that time.
Of course, the security through obscurity thing is crap, but either way I’m not having to run security software.
That’s actually 1 in 40, not 1 in 10.
I agree with M. X. N. T. 4. 1.
Zune Tang, care to comment?
@Jim: 1 in 10 was PC’s that had the security hole. 25 out of 1000 was the % of infected machines
Other than infect and call home, has Conficker been documented to do any damage?
Just curious.
Yet the IT/CIO drones are all up in ahoopla freaking out about iPhone, iPads or Macs being introduced into their network. How stupid must CEO, CFO and all these decision making managers to keep believing the BS these IT/CIO are pulling over their eyes.
Jubel,
That is why they call it RELIGION — you would think that many IT/CIO decision-maker types have a THEOLOGY degree, rather than an engineering/CompSci (cough, cough) or business degree.
Niffy
Anyway, what’s more important to you:
• Your personal security
• A corporation’s market share
…the “security through obscurity” argument seems to insinuate: “Buying Macs will increase their market share. If YOU buy one, that might be the straw that broke the camel’s back! Then YOU would be responsible for unleashing a torrent of viruses!”
What’s a worm?
@M.X.N.T.4.1.
Indeed, the past 15 years of freedom from bad stuff of any type (viruses, worms, etc.) has been priceless. Every day that a Dell PC was in my house was a day that I worried, and every time that I ran Spybot and AdAware and virus checking, I found something. It was like shoveling sand.
…in the Sahara desert.
KenC,
Those things that make dogs drag their asses on the floor. And humans, too.