Conficker up to its old tricks

摘要

The Conficker worm is alive and well and last week shut down the police network in Manchester, United Kingdom, for several days.rnThe worm infected computers at the Greater rnManchester Police, forcing officers there to rely on rnneighboring jurisdictions to access the national criminal records database, according to published reports. Rather than run the risk of infecting the rest of the Police National Computer network, the Manchester network was disconnected from it. Investigators are leaning toward blaming the outbreak on an infected memory stick that someone plugged into a computer on the network.