De-Worming Software More Effective at Detecting Infected Network Computers Before Contagion Can Spread

Written by Scientific American Topic - Epidemics & Pandemics on February 3, 2010 – 10:35 pm -

More than a year after being launched by hackers on a campaign to infect computers running Microsoft Windows, the Conficker worm 's effects are still being felt. England's Greater Manchester Police department, for example, has had to cut its computers off from a national criminal database since detecting Conficker on its network last week. [More]

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