[pchelpers] Article:Internet worm could wreak havoc

By Steve Rennie, THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA - A malicious cyber worm could wreak havoc on millions of
potentially infected computers April 1 - or it could all be one big
April Fool's joke.

But the Canadian Internet Registration Authority isn't taking any
chances when it comes to the latest variant of the Conficker worm.

CIRA, which manages Canada's dot-ca (.ca) domain name registry, warned
Tuesday that millions of computers running Microsoft's operating system
may have been infected since the worm began spreading last fall.

Beginning April 1, the worm is expected to force infected computers to
randomly generate and connect to 50,000 web URLs a day from 110 domains
around the world, including dot-ca domains.

A secret "command-and-control" file instructing the worm to perform
malicious actions could be hidden on any one of those URLs.

More here:
http://technology.canoe.ca/2009/03/24/8868211-cp.html
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