Conficker postmortem: Hype distracted but threat is real
April 1 has come and gone and in the minds of many people the Conficker worm turned out to be a joke instead of the major Internet security event that might have been envisioned. Was the hype good, or bad, and who is to blame?
A member of the Conficker Working Group, a consortium of companies and experts formed to eradicate the worm, had this to say: “The focus on April 1 ignored the fact that malware is out there and it is not detected easily and it has counter measures,” said Dave Dittrich, an affiliate researcher at the University of Washington. People tend to blame the security vendors for hyping viruses so they can sell more products. But in this case, everyone CNET News talked to about Conficker downplayed the digital disaster scenario and said things would likely be fairly quiet on April 1, as they were.
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