[pchelpers] News:Worm Warning: New Would-be Botnet Growing Explosively

Posted by Keith Ferrell Friday, Jan 16, 2009, 10:53 AM ET

A new botnet. and a big one, could be in the early stages of existence,
with more than 3.5 million PCs, by some estimates, already enrolled as a
result of a fast-spreading worm. As many as a third of the world's
Windows machines may be vulnerable. 

The fast spread of the Confickr/Downadump worm to as many as 3.5 million
PCs could be the opening phases of a new botnet attack.

Security vendor F-Secure put the infected machine estimate bluntly,
posting in a blog that there are:

"2,395,963 infections worldwide. This figure is conservative; the real
number is certainly higher."

More here:
http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2009/01/worm_warning_ne.html
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