April Fool’s Day is fast approaching. And for virus, worm and malware writers, it is their most awaited day. For them it is their feast day, lauching their destructive inventions to crawl over the internet and bring havoc to over computer networks. And for security experts it is their most hated day. But for some they consider as their most exciting day in life, as they are racing against time to battle and prevent any damage that these malwares may cause.
For the past few years we haven’t heard of a big attack from dangerous worms. And according to our security experts, a new and hideous worm will be released this coming April 1. It is called Conficker C, which was considered as one of the most damagings attacks experts would witness. Conficker C is now on its 3rd variant since it came out late of 2008. At its most latest form, the worm(Conficker C) is now powerful, complicated and virulent. And as of today, experts were not sure of what it will do on the judgement day. Well i praised Conficker C’s author for creating such a clever worm. Security experts are having difficulty tracking it down as it hides its tracks by operating on vast number of URLs to contact with head quarters. It actually use upto 50,000 addresses a day just to cover up its tracks. Now try track and disable that. With such alarming dange the worm poses, Microsoft had actually put up a reward on the writer of the worm. How much? Well not much, it was just $250,000. Until today, our security experts are continously researching on a possible cure for the worm.
So a piece of advice on April Fool’s Day, be extra vigilant in protecting your computers. Click that update menus now, install additional anti virus, as well as anti spyware/malware software. Make the necessary precautions and probably you will be save from Conficker C’s wrath. =)

