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Data from enterprise users of Sophos’s Endpoint Assessment Test, which checks the state of Windows PC patching and anti-virus protection, suggest 11 per cent of users have failed to install the MS08-067 patch that guards against the vulnerability exploited by Conficker. The figures come from scans run since the start of the year.

Windows PCs infected with the Conficker worm have turned into junk mail-spewing robots capable of sending billions of spam messages a day, a security company warned today.

What’s a botnet? Don’t be stupid if you don’t know – GO here! Those familiar with confickor know it has taken over millions of unsuspecting “zombie” computers worldwide and is programmed to do something on April 1st. What – no one knows for sure, but you can be sure it’s not lifting up mankind to some Utopian paradise.