Kaspersky Labs discovered that Conficker is charging users $49.95 in order to “remove” the virus from your system. Is it part of a larger business model where the makers intend to profit?
https://gizmodo.com/confickerd-machines-are-all-doing-something-5205046
Since it showed up in November 2008, there have been variants of the virus released. Conficker has begun updating itself, which has been dubbed Conficker.e. Conficker.e is installing Waledac, a spam bot. In turn, it’ll spam you to remove it for a certain price. The original Conficker virus was supposed to activate on April 1 with the potential of infected Windows computers everywhere doing its bidding. Instead, it lay dormant. Not all Conficker nodes have been acting the same, so what’s really going on? [PC World]
