Despite tabloids reporting an imminent cyber-attack from a 'deadly virus' that would send the internet into 'meltdown', the World Wide Web has so far survived the Conficker virus.
Recent media reports may have focused on the 1 April date, when Conficker-infected machines around the globe searched for fresh instructions, but an attack from the botnet of Conficker-infected PCs remains a danger.
So far, the international network of up to 12m infected machines is yet to execute malicious instructions. However, as the BBC's Click programme recently demonstrated, a botnet spam or DDoS attack can bring down websites and flood email inboxes with ease.
Even internal government computer systems haven't avoided Conficker, with PCs at both the Ministry of Defence and the House of Parliament dealing with the infection this year. The virus has even infiltrated the computer network of the French Navy, stopping its fighter jets from taking off during exercises, because it had infected the Marine Nationale's flight plan database.
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