Conficker One Year Later - Update from AVERT Labs

McAfee's AVERT Labs has provided an update on Conficker which still resides on the Internet on unpatched systems.

Conficker - Update from McAfee's AVERT Labs
http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2009/12/16/conficker-again-in-the-news/
http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2009/12/17/conficker-again-in-the-news-part-2/

QUOTE: Conficker, although it actually does very little, continues to be a major annoyance worldwide, so let’s use these excellent charts and graphs as a reason to revisit two important points:

• Update your systems to current patch levels

• Use up-to-date and properly configured security software. Deploy these at a variety of levels whenever possible. (Layers of defense work better than a single solution)

Wikipedia - Conficker is over one year old
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker

• A variant: First appeared 21 November 2008
• B variant: First appeared 29 December 2008
• C variant: First appeared 20 February 2009
• D variant: First appeared 4 March 2009
• E variant: First appeared 7 April 2009  (self-destruction on 3 May 2009)