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The due date for the Conficker worm and its variants is upon us. And ironically it's due date which is scheduled to be April 1st or better known as April Fools Day has the Web World and even the regular world in a bit of a quandry. It’s been some time now that there has been so much malware coverage in the general media, and it's kind of good in a sense because it reminds us of the danger that is still lurking on the world wide web. However, is it really as bad as they make it out to be? Let's look a little deeper.

According to what we've been told the Convicker worm will rear it's ugly head on the first day of April.

So what is this Conficker thing anyways? 

Conficker is a malicious program that creates random URLs everyday and computers infected with it check these URLs to see if there are any new versions of the malicious code available to download. It does so at a pace of 250 times a day.

So what's the significance of April 1st?  Well, on this day, the latest variant will create 50,000 new URLs, although we don't know if any of these will host an update of Conficker. The creator may even use the URLs to host other malware. 

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