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Re: Major Attack April Fools Day--Conficker "C" Worm said by Bipolar Bear :
So, if you temporary block access to these websites, would the worm think there's no connection and become dormant?
It does more than merely access them for the sake of checking for connectivity, if you read the CA article more closely, you'd notice that it actually uses them to set its own clock; effectively preventing people from simply setting their local time back before April 1.
This way, it goes live April 1 regardless of what trickery you think you're going to do with your clock. An intriguing and relatively new way of doing things too.
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