Conficker; there has probably never been a virus or worms with so much written about it.  And now that’s it’s April 1st and the world has not come to an end, many people are no doubt questioning whether Conficker was a bust and nothing we didn’t needed to worry about, if the threat itself was over hyped, and it all the electronic ink spilled about this threat was worth it.  I’ll give you my opinion, but first a status update of Conficker.

April 1st has come and as predicted machines infected with Downadup.C have switched to the new communication algorithm.  But when these infected machines are able to communicate back to a Command & Control server they are not getting updated with a malicious code payload.  In other words, no large or small, malicious attack has been unleashed by Conficker.

So is Conficker a bust for the bad guys?  No.  One thing we can tell about this worm is that whoever...