Viruses and vaccines seem to be all the hot topic lately ;)... Since I'm not a virologist, or a vaccinologist, I'm not overly qualified to discuss them except to say that I and my family have been vaccinated and we're fine. Instead of talking about the subject of viruses in the human body, for which I'm not at all qualified, I instead decided I'd segue into something more my style.

For the next few posts I'm going to examine with you the world of computer viruses, worms, and trojan horses. Hopefully after this we'll get into some malware analysis. I'll get back to the security series after this series.

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Well, yes. Of course you should. The Conficker worm has all of the makings of a nasty April Fools Day joke. It is wide spread, it is digging itself in and making itself hard to get rid of and nobody really knows what it will turn into.

That being said, the Conficker worm isn't really much different than many other worms in the past. In fact it is better than some because there are already patches available to fix the underlying problem that is exploited by this worm. (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx)

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