"Conficker Worm is detected 220 million times worldwide in the last two and a half years. This makes it one of the biggest threats to the company," said Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume (SIRv12). As proclaimed The Economic Times, Friday (27/04/2012).
"92 percent Conficker infection from a weak password, and 8 percent of infections are exploited by the computer system security weaknesses in the system," the report said.
Computer worm is a computer program that replicates independently malware to spread to other computers. In the fourth quarter of 2011, Conficker was detected in 1.7 million systems worldwide.
"Conficker is one of the biggest security issue facing us, but we have good resistance," said Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Director Tim Rains.
To protect the system, Microsoft recommends users have strong passwords, keep the system up to date and using antivirus software from trusted sources.
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