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Four Percent of All PCs are Infected with Conficker

Posted By Pete at 5:06 PM, April 9, 2010

Gregg Keizer at Computerworld has reported that 1 in 10 PCs are still unpatched and vulnerable to the worm known as Conficker and that 25 out of every 1000 PCs are infected with the worm. A year ago, we reported Conficker (Kido) spreading like wild fire throughout the Internet.

I think what's alarming is the vast number of PCs that are either unprotected or under protected. Even with the people around me - friends, relatives, I see too many cases where they have no software anti-virus or their anti-virus subscription that came with the PC or laptop had already expired for 3 years! (We've all seen this before). If 4% of all PCs are infected by Conficker alone, I am scared to even imagine the number of PCs infected by the other 10 million threats!

The Internet is not getting safer anytime soon, so be sure to get yourself educated on safe Internet usage practices and get yourself and your loved ones as many layers of malware protection as possible.

Posted by: Pete at 5:06 PM
Categories: Malware

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