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Researchers are hoping that a potential April Fool’s time bomb — the Conficker.c that is supposed to hit computers on April 1.

But many hope that it will be like the dire predictions surrounding the “millennium bug?” The doom-and-gloom scenarios bandied about by security analysts on how computers could act when their clocks turned to January 1, 2000.

Though the threat may not be real, but one cannot ignore either. Conficker.c has infected over 5 million computers around the world.

CNN.com has an interesting report on this, Read here

It says,

Conficker.c is a worm, a malicious program thought to have already infected between 5 million and 10 million computers.

Those infections haven’t spawned many symptoms, but on April 1 a master computer is scheduled to gain control of these zombie machines, said Don DeBolt, director of threat research for CA, a New York-based IT and software company.

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The danger lies here

The program could delete all of the files on a person’s computer, use zombie PCs — those controlled by a master — to overwhelm and shut down Web sites or monitor a person’s keyboard strokes to collect private information like passwords or bank account information, experts said.

CNN.com has an interesting report on this, Read here