[LINK] Conficker, boots April First

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 19:53 +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> I'm not up on the Conficker thing, so maybe this is me displaying that
> ignorance, but it seems to me to be extraordinarily unlikely that
> anything to do with the DNS would have any relevance to a worm. I
> suppose the DNS port might be used in some way, as it swans through most
> firewalls, but "domain names"?

OK, now I know. Still strikes me as a weird way to operate, as domain
names are by definition traceable and locatable.

Regards, K.

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