Το πιο ισχυρό σκουλήκι που έγινε ποτέ;

The key word there is could, because so far Conficker has done none of those things. It has been activated only once, to perform a relatively mundane spamming operation—enough to demonstrate that it is not benign. No one knows who created it. No one knows how to stop it or kill it. And no one even knows for sure why it exists.

The struggle against this remarkable worm is a sort of chess match pitting the cleverest attackers in the world against the cleverest defenders in the world, many of whom are volunteers. The good guys—who have been dubbed the “Conficker Cabal”—have gone to unprecedented lengths in this battle, and have had successes beyond anything they would have thought possible when they started.

But a year and a half into the battle, here’s the bottom line: The worm is winning.

HERE ARE A few of the things that the geeky good guys discovered about the worm in the first weeks after it appeared: 1) It exploited a specific hole, Port 445, in the Microsoft operating systems. 2) It patched the hole it came through, making sure it would not have to compete with other worms. 3) It tried to prevent its host computers from receiving updated antivirus software.

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Έτσι φαίνεται. Και τώρα που διαβάζεται αυτό το κείμενο μεγαλώνει όλο και περισσότερο!

Σίγουρα φταίει η Apple και γι αυτό, έτσι;

Μπεεεε.