Archive for April, 2009

April 1, 2009 and Conficker

April 1, 2009 - We’ve gotten a number of questions from customers asking us if we’ve seen any new activity from the Conficker worm now that it’s April 1, 2009. (continue reading...) Read more

Trafficconverter.net Going Down

April 1, 2009 - One of the more notorious pay-per-install programs, Trafficconverter has been taken down today.These sites work like this:1.  Trafficconverter develops a "rogue" antivirus product2.  The product will find viruses even on clean systems3.  It won't "clean" (continue reading...) Read more

Strange April Fools’/D-Day Prank

April 1, 2009 - While the computing population is secretly expecting fireworks once DOWNAD-infected PCs start accessing some of its 50,000 generated URLs, we at Trend Micro know that cybercrime operates in almost absolute stealth. Preaching this alongside best practices like immediately (continue reading...) Read more

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