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Researcher: Worm infects 1.1M Windows PCs in 24 hours
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Posted by Donster on: 2009-01-15 15:40:29 353
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It would make 'one big badass botnet,' says Finnish security company
By Gregg Keizer @ Computerworld
The computer worm that exploits a months-old Windows bug has infected more than a million PCs in the past 24 hours, a security company said today.
Early Wednesday, Helsinki, Finland-based security firm F-Secure Corp. estimated that 3.5 million PCs have been compromised by the "Downadup" worm, an increase of more than 1.1 million since Tuesday.
"[And] we still consider this to be a conservative estimate," said Sean Sullivan, a researcher at F-Secure, in an entry to the company's Security Lab blog. Yesterday, F-Secure said the worm had infected an estimated 2.4 million machines.
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