There is way too much hype about Conficker.C and what it may or may not do on April 1. I’m not sure who is feeding the media, which is fueling the hype, but it’s very counterproductive. There are worse threats out there than this one botnet, and focusing all of our attention on Conficker is letting the others go unchecked.
Rather than rehash what’s already known about Conficker.C, I’ll just point readers to an excellent Q&A post from F-Secure. Question number one:
Q: I heard something really bad is going to happen on the Internet on April 1st! Will it?
A: No, not really.
If that’s not enough information for you, read the rest of their post, and stop freaking out.
Update: I just read an interesting post on this topic from Verizon Business Security (Risk, Group Think and the Conficker Worm), which I saw thanks to TaoSecurity.
