April 1st to be the day a worm brings down the world’s computers?

Stories are starting to fly around the Internet about the latest worm attacking Windows PCs. Why is this one gaining such mass attention? Because of the mystery surrounding it. The Conficker worm has supposedly already infected millions of PCs around the world and it has plenty of people worried what exactly it is up to. What is known is that the next scheduled “update” for the worm is ironically enough, April Fools’ Day. Look at that, malicious hackers with a sense of humor. Apparently though, Microsoft is not seeing any humor in the situation, given that they offered up a $250,000 bounty for the creator.