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● 09.23.09

●● Sydney Morning Herald: Conficker Leads to “Internet Meltdown Threat”

Posted in Australia, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Security, Windows at 3:26 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Conficker can still take entire nations off-line, warn experts; another new threat called Clampi affects only Windows

AUSTRALIA seriously pondered banning (from the Internet) Microsoft Windows PCs that are not properly secured or like hundreds of millions of other Windows PCs, are outside the control of the intended user.

=> seriously pondered | like hundreds of millions of other Windows PCs

Conficker is far from dead [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] and the Australian press warns about it again.

=> 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ↺ warns about it again

Internet meltdown threat: Conficker worm refuses to turn[...]The worm, first detected in November last year, spreads rapidly to computers through a flaw in the Windows operating system.Infected machines are co-opted into a “botnet” army, which can be controlled and used by the hackers to launch unprecedented cyber attacks.

There is another newly-developing plague called Clampi (mentioned yesterday). It affects only Windows PCs and the following new article makes it even more explicit:

=> yesterday | ↺ the following new article

Only computers running various Windows operating systems are affected. The virus cannot install itself on Linux based systems.

This ought to remind people that Linux/UNIX PCs are inherently more secure. █

=> Linux/UNIX PCs are inherently more secure

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