Conficker, also known as
Downadup or Kido, is the latest super virus to spread around the Internet and has security experts in a panic. When last we checked, about a week ago,
Conficker had already spread to 9 million PCs, with little sign of slowing. Now it has infected at least 10 million PCs and experts believe there may be up to 350 million vulnerable computers out there.
The worm isn’t just exploiting a networking hole, however; it features a sophisticated method of cracking administrator passwords, making it difficult to remove, and also copies itself to USB drives so that it can spread even when the online flaw is plugged.
There were series of attacks on the net after conficker.
Conficker A was detected on November 21, 2008 by Microsoft. Conficker B was repoted to Microsoft on December 29, 2008. Conficker C, February 20, 2009. Conficker D, March 4, 2009. Conficker E April 28, 2009. Some rumors says that the worm originated in Germany. The damages was first felt in Europe and travels through MS IIS towards US.
Here are the estimated effect of the Worm Europe and US according to IBM.
The affected hosts of the virus were vast as shown below:
Europe
United States
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