Techcordance

Still out there

Antivirus company Sophos has sent an alert saying many users still have yet to patch their PCs against the exploit that makes them vulnerable to the Conficker worm.
Sophos’ senior technology consultant Graham Cluley, said in a blog post Thursday, the antivirus company found 11 percent of users who had taken an endpoint assessment test at its Web site did not have the Microsoft OS08-067 patch installed.
The patch, available since October last year, fixes a vulnerability which allows the Conficker worm to infect PCs.
The Conficker saga has been broiling for the last month or so, where it received a swarm of media attention leading up to April 1–when it was expected to detonate. Its real effects were seen about a week later, when it started dropping a mystery payload on infected computers.