http://www.techdreams.org – Speculation about Conficker’s purpose ranges from the benign - an April Fool’s Day prank - to far darker notions. One likely possibility is that the program will be used in the “rent-a-computer-crook” business, something that has been tried previously by the computer underground. Just like Amazon.com offers computing time on its network for rent, the Conficker team might rent access to its “network” for nefarious purposes like spamming. Read more »