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TwitterA worldwide computer infection known as Conficker.C has been slowly infecting government and pesonal computer networks across the globe. It has been appearing since October of 2008 and has an infected over 15 million computers. You probably haven’t noticed. Not a big deal… it hasn’t affected you yet.
Well, Some call it a trogian, some call it a virus. CNN coined the term “sleeper cell virus”, and that’s exactly what it is.
On April 1, 2009, Conficker, which means configuration fuck in Gernan, will be turned on. It will allegedly wreak lots of havoc upon the internet world. Everything from DNS updates to Windows DLL overrides will take place in a simultaneous attack.
This is a big deal. Microsoft Corporation is offering $5,000,000 to anyone who can identify the creator of this virus.
Worried about your network?
To test your network for Conficker.C, run the following Command for nmap:
nmap -PN -T4 -p139,445 -n -v --script=smb-check-vulns --script-args safe=1 [insert router ip here]-255
Before your eyes will stream a list of all the computers on your network and the infection status of each of them.
Here are the Exact details on Conficker.c.
Maybe now, the world will switch to *nix operating systems. 
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Introduction
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