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Worm exploiting vulnerability in the Windows operating system among top threats

Win32/Conficker is a new addition to the regular malware charts - placing third with (3,90%)  constituting a network worm which can be controlled remotely by an attacker, spreading and exploiting a known vulnerability in the Windows RPC subsystem. Conficker tries to download additional malware likely to be connected with adware.