As many as one out of every 25 Internet addresses that transmits potentially dangerous data over the Internet is infected with the Conficker.c worm, IBM Corp.’s security arm said today.One day after the worm began communicating with its hacker controllers over a new command channel — a trigger that failed to wreak the havoc some had predicted — IBM Internet Security Systems’ X-Force team had enough data to estimate its size, said Holly Stewart, the group’s threat response manager.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131038IBM sees Conficker hitting 4 percent of PCs [IDG]
IBM is the second company in two days to suggest that the number of computers infected by the Conficker.C worm may be higher than previously thought.After scanning 2 million computers over the past 24 hours, IBM’s Internet Security Systems (ISS) division said Thursday that it had spotted the worm on 4 percent of the IP addresses it monitored.
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