Microsoft recommends that the patch be applied immediately. Microsoft issues first impromptu and non-scheduled security patch in 18 months - MS08-067 - to address the vulnerability that Gimmiv exploited. Mistakes in the way it is coded limit its ability to spread. Over the next few weeks it manages to infect 200 more machines in 23 nations - most of which were in Malaysia. Gimmiv first seen in the wild infecting a PC in Hanoi, Vietnam. Experts speculate this was a a test run prior to it being released in the wild. The Gimmiv Trojan, which exploited the vulnerability Conficker capitalises on, is first spotted running in a virtual machine on a server in South Korea. Conficker has been around since late November 2008Ī chronology of key events in the history of the Conficker worm, that has infected an estimated 15 million computers worldwide:
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