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Giant revolving map on screen in Symantec headquarters showing location of Conficker-infected machines2. Tight of infected host locations on map3. Scroll down of news web sites about the Conficker...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAlexandria, Virginia - 31 March 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Giant revolving map on screen in Symantec headquarters showing location of Conficker-infected machines\u003cbr/\u003e2. Tight of infected host locations on map\u003cbr/\u003e3. Scroll down of news web sites about the Conficker virus\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Grant Geyer, Computer Security Expert, Symantec:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The down and up worm, also known as Conficker, is an attempt by hackers to take over compromised systems all over the Internet and use them for all sorts of nasty online activity, such as trying to steal bank account information, social security numbers, maybe even try to sell you fake anti-virus software.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Revolving map in Symantec headquarters showing location of Conficker-infested machines\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various of Grant Geyer talking to another Symantec computer security expert\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Grant Geyer, Computer Security Expert, Symantec\u003cbr/\u003e\"Each infected computer will contact its peers and will also call home to over 500 domains across the Internet. They may receive instructions to go active and launch some practical joke. They may receive instructions to go active and look for confidential information. They may receive no instructions at all. The truth is that no one, even the security experts, don't know at this stage.\" \u003cbr/\u003e8. Symantec computer security experts working on computers\u003cbr/\u003e9. Tight of Conficker virus alerts on Symantec computer\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of Symantec headquarters; security experts working\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Grant Geyer, Computer Security Expert, Symantec\u003cbr/\u003e\"The truth is that nobody knows what's going to happen on April 1st. The reality is, something could launch tomorrow, next week, next month or next year. Nobody knows when the launch date is going to be for the worm, which is why we're recommending to be proactive and preventive about getting this off of your computer if it's on. If it's not on your computer yet, take the basic steps to get your computer clean and protected.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - March 30, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e12. Tight of woman's hands typing on computer\u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid of man working on computer\u003cbr/\u003eThe fast-moving Conficker computer worm, a scourge of the Internet that has infected at least three (m) million PCs, is set to spring to life in a new way on Wednesday - April Fools' Day.\u003cbr/\u003eThat's when many of the poisoned machines will get more aggressive about \"phoning home\" to the worm's creators over the Internet, virus experts said. \u003cbr/\u003eWhen that happens, the people behind the worm will be able to trigger the programme  to send spam, spread more infections, clog networks with traffic, or try and bring down web sites.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The down and up worm, also known as Conficker, is an attempt by hackers to take over compromised systems all over the Internet and use them for all sorts of nasty online activity, such as trying to steal bank account information, social security numbers, maybe even try to sell you fake antivirus software,\" said Grant Geyer, a computer security expert at Symantec.\u003cbr/\u003eTechnically, this could cause havoc, from massive network outages to the creation of a cyberweapon of mass destruction that attacked government computers. \u003cbr/\u003eBut researchers who have been tracking Conficker say the April 1st date will probably come and go quietly.\u003cbr/\u003eGeyer says the worm will in fact go active on Wednesday as part of a programming change.\u003cbr/\u003eBut what the worm will be instructed to do is anyone's guess.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Each infected computer will contact its peers and will also call home to over 500 domains across the Internet. They may receive instructions to go active and launch some practical joke. They may receive instructions to go active and look for confidential information. They may receive no instructions at all. The truth is that no one, even the security experts, don't know at this stage,\" said Geyer. \u003cbr/\u003eThe army of Conficker-infected machines - called the botnet - could be one of the greatest cybercrime tools ever assembled.\u003cbr/\u003eConficker's authors just need to figure out a way to reliably communicate with it.\u003cbr/\u003eInfected PCs need commands to come alive\u003cbr/\u003eThey get those commands by connecting to web sites controlled by the criminals.\u003cbr/\u003eEven legitimate sites can be co-opted for this purpose, if hackers break in and use the sites' servers to send out malicious commands.\u003cbr/\u003eConficker's rapid spread across the Internet has drawn the notice of computer security companies, however, who have been able to work with domain name registrars to block the botnet from dialing in.\u003cbr/\u003eThose efforts will get much harder on 1 April when many Conficker-infected machines will generate a list of 50,000 new domains a day that they could try.\u003cbr/\u003eOf that group, the botnet will randomly select 500 for the machines to actually query.\u003cbr/\u003eThe bad guys still need to get only one of those up and running to connect to their botnet.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd the bigger list of possibilities increases the odds they'll slip something by the security community.\u003cbr/\u003eGeyer said even if nothing consequential happens on 1 April, computer owners should not be lulled into a false sense of security.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The truth is that nobody knows what's going to happen on April 1st. 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If it's not on your computer yet, take the basic steps to get your computer clean and protected,\" said Geyer.\u003cbr/\u003eGeyer says the best way to determine if your computer has been infected by Conficker is to see if you can open Internet sites owned by Microsoft or anti-virus vendors such as Symantec Corp., McAfee Inc. or F-Secure Corp.\u003cbr/\u003eIf not, your PC might have Conficker or a similar bug.\u003cbr/\u003eIf you're already infected, the best remedy is to have a friend  - whose computer is virus free - download a removal tool from Microsoft or one of the anti-virus vendors.\u003cbr/\u003eThen that person should e-mail the tool to you for use on your computer.\u003cbr/\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='action-container flex justify-between'\u003e\n\u003cbutton aria-expanded='false' aria-label='Read more description' class='rp-full-description' type='button'\u003e\n\u003ci class='fai fa-solid fa-align-left'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cspan 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