Microsoft took the decision to provide security updates even to pirated Windows 7 copies after the spread on Conficker, a powerful worm.

The developer of a widely-used Conficker scanner, Dan Kaminsky said the following statement “The world wants there to be fireworks, or some Ebola-class, computers-exploding-all-over-the-world event or God knows what, but the reality is…the Conficker developers have cemented their ability to push updates through any fences the good guys have managed to build in February and March.”

This is the part where it gets somewhat terrifying, the Conficker is designed to automatically update itself, and it get more powerful with every update. Conficker has built a zombie botnet infrastructure by registering hundreds of spam DNS names (askcw.com.ru for example), which it then uses as nodes for infected computers to contact instructions. In the beginning, Conficker registered about 250 DNS names a day but at the moment, the worm manages to register up to 50.000 a day , and this is something that even security pros cannot keep the pace with.

“It’s not about ownage, it’s about continued ownage,” says Kaminsky, citing a favorite quote of one of his hacker friends. “It’s not about how you get into the network, it’s about, ‘How do you be [there] a year from now?’” And the answer is, of course: “You do a lot of the things the Conficker developers are doing.”

So, to sum all this up, use protection and be careful what you’re “clicking”…