In 2008, researchers were touting the defeat of the Storm worm — the most notorious example of the malware category that self-propagates through remote exploits, email, network shares, removable drives, file-sharing or instant messaging applications. Some would argue that despite the name, Storm was not a traditional worm at all, since it required a human-computer interaction to spread. Last year saw only two worms in the 20 most prevalent malware families, with trojans becoming the outright leader of malware categories.
Mine was. I just recently heard about it and looked into it and lo and behold my hosting company had been on top of it for months.
Oh and it you know anything about this Worm and feel like getting paid Redplaid posted something about a bounty on their blog. They are my managed hosting company by the way.
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The Worm Returns: Protecting Yourself From Conficker
Posted by: Mike Paquette March 7, 2009 04:00 AMIn 2008, researchers were touting the defeat of the Storm worm — the most notorious example of the malware category that self-propagates through remote exploits, email, network shares, removable drives, file-sharing or instant messaging applications. Some would argue that despite the name, Storm was not a traditional worm at all, since it required a human-computer interaction to spread. Last year saw only two worms in the 20 most prevalent malware families, with trojans becoming the outright leader of malware categories.
Oh and it you know anything about this Worm and feel like getting paid Redplaid posted something about a bounty on their blog. They are my managed hosting company by the way.
http://blog.redplaid.com/index.php/2009/03/31/microsoft-boun
ty-on-conficker-worm-creator/