‘Huge increase’ in worm attacks plague unpatched Windows PCs

A computer worm that exploits a Windows bug Microsoft Corp. patched more than two months ago continues to wreak havoc, a security company said today, as it boosted its overall threat ranking and warned users to patch their PCs.

“We’ve seen a huge increase in the number of [malware] samples, as well as infections,” said Ryan Sherstobitoff, chief corporate evangelist at Panda Security, referring to the “Conficker.c” worm. [Computer World]