Conficker Worm Set to Reignite on April Fools Day
The Conficker computer worm, infecting millions of PCs, could trigger new actions on April 1 by contacting 50 000 potential domains daily and selecting 500 for commands. Experts caution the April Fool’s tweak may not cause a major crash but heightens risk of spam, outages, and botnet misuse.
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Price guarantee goes awry in multiple incidents
Reports from Greensburg Pennsylvania state a man returned $60 after a gas station bet on cigarette prices. In Federal Way Washington a police chief apologized for a traffic collision caused while checking a BlackBerry. Ohio man pleads guilty to giving marijuana to his niece. Maryland prison crew babysits wandering toddler on rural highway.
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