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Conficker Worm Hiding on Millions of PCs Around the World, How to Tell if Your Own PC has the Conficker Worm

With the release of the new book, Worm: The First Digital World War, the Conficker worm (also known, depending on which variant you have, as Conficker A, Conficker B, Conficker C, Conficker D, Conficker E and the Conficker Virus) is back in the news. This is a good thing, as it is very much still one of the biggest threats on the Internet, but as it has been around since 2008, it’s been “out of sight, out of mind” for many users, who no longer think about detection and Conficker removal. Here’s a quick refresher on how to tell if you have Conficker (the handy Conficker eye chart) and having been infected with Conficker, how to find Conficker removal tools so that you can remove Conficker.