The much-feared reactivation of Conficker on April 1 goes off without a bang

As predicted by PandaLabs (http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/archive/Don_1920_t-get-taken-in-by-the-Conficker-panic.aspx), Panda Security's malware detection and analysis laboratory, the much-feared reactivation of the Conficker virus, forecast for 00:00h on April 1, has yet to cause massive infections. According to Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs, "The ultimate aim of the virus is to obtain money. With the alarm generated by the media attention, security vendors have been working to avoid a potentially widespread epidemic. Evidently though, if someone is going to steal money, they are not interested in being headline news. That's why we believe that its creator is trying to find a new zero-day vulnerability to exploit in order to spread the infection, but at a moment when our guard is down, not when everyone is on the alert." At 00:00h on April 1, Conficker started to generate 50,000 new URLs from which, supposedly, the malware would be able to update itself to a new version, starting a massive series of infections. However, until now, no new versions or additional infections have been detected other than those already associated to the previously active variants. href://"http://www.pandasecurity.com/emailhtml/oxygen/040409_ENG_in.htm">More info