Podcast: Conficker using P2P to spread payload

As CNET News has been reporting, researchers at Trend Micro have discovered that the Conficker worm, which did basically nothing on April 1, is now updating itself by using a peer-to-peer network between infected Windows PCs to pass on payload instructions.

Because the worm's instructions are encrypted, as of 7:20 p.m. PDT Wednesday night, researchers were still unable to determine the nature of the payload, according to Trend Micro education director David Perry.

Still , in this audio podcast, Perry had plenty of information about how the worm is finally passing on instructions to infected PCs.

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