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So the big Conficker<\/a> scare of April 1st has passed without any real events, no major sites taken down, no major online terror campaigns spawned.<\/p>\n Just a new more sophisticated, harder to stop version of Conficker updating from a longer list of domains.<\/p>\n It seems like this malware might be here to stay and infecting more and more computers building a formidable network of zombies.<\/p>\n April 1 has come and gone in some parts of the world, and the Conficker worm is still here. While the day in security passed by relatively uneventfully, there are still people at risk.<\/p>\n The doomsday some were predicting the Conficker worm to bring had not materialized as of the evening of April 1. But that hardly means Conficker is a bust.<\/p>\n In short, the Conficker worm did what was expected\u2014generate 50,000 domain names and begin contacting them. According to BKIS, the Bach Khoa Internetwork Security center, 1.1 million PCs in Europe, Asia and a part of America infected with Conficker have already “called home.”<\/p>\n But even though nothing dramatic happened, AVG Technologies Chief Research Officer Roger Thompson warned against blowing the worm off. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n It seems like the confirmed infection rate is sitting at just above 1 million, far less than the previously estimated 9 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n