Conficker Virus

You may have heard some horror stories about the Conficker Virus that was supposed to attack on April 1 and do who-knows-what kind of damange. Well it didn't. But it was an interesting story about the mutation of hacks. Now, virus don't do random things like delete your files. They generally try to make money off you by offering bogus web purchases.

This Conficker Virus also was new in the way it started a peer-to-peer process, not a simple phone-home to a web site for instructions. That's why it's been so hard to track down the hacker. So basically, they still don't know what it is supposed to do or that it might still do it at some later date.

So just to be safe, double check that your virus scanners are updated or run a Conficker specific one.

Do you know anyone who got this?