April Fools Day stirred lots of panic. The Conficker computer virus, has infected several milion computers since November. Security expersts said '' They put too much effort into it to break things, they want to make money'' the worm can take control of unsuspecting PCs running Microsoft's Windows operating system. These PCs can be directed to send spam, carry out identity- theft scams and bring down Web sites by flooding them with traffic. After seeking new instructions begining yesterday the newrly refreshed worm, is still a potential ticking bomb.

One scary element is that Conficker's authors have been given the infected PCs peer-to-peer abilities, which allows them to update each other and share malicious commands through encrypted channels.
The agency, through collaboration with Skype to law enforcement agencies managed to intercept and decipher one of the VoIP-calls with their attacker, which according to the IP-address of this computer , was in Russia.

The story leaves us none the wiser to the identity of the unknown author of Conficker. Some sources, such as Vietnamese security firm Bkis, suggest that Conficker is the work of Chinese malware authors, but even this remains largely speculative.

Conficker worm has likely been in the April Fools' okes about it. However , there's still plenty of the time yet for the virus to clean out your credit card and other personal data so don't relax completely until you make sure Conficker isn't lurking on your computer.

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