Hijackers Hunting

Software giant Microsoft is offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of hackers behind a powerful computer virus that could lead to millions of PCs being hijacked. You have probably heard of the Conficker or Downadup virus it is one of the most serious infections ever although experts have not found out its purpose yet they are trying hard to get rid of it brcause it could wreak havoc at any given moment if it is given the orders. The worm mainly infects corporate networks, and Microsoft has issued a patch to fix it, but even if a single computer in a network is infected the worm will spread to all the computers even the treated ones. This is why Microsoft has announced a $250,000 reward for information to track down those behind Conficker. This sounds to me like a group of people who made a serious virus to test there skills and are waiting to press the button so that the virus can do what its actually programed to do.















Neild , Barry (Fri February 13, 2009). $250K Microsoft bounty to catch worm creator. Retrieved February 14, 2009, from cnn.com/technology Web site: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/ptech/02/13/virus.downadup/index.html