Several weeks ago, Don Power wrote an article on this site about Conficker (aka the April Fools Worm) and its similarity to the Y2K issue. I came across an article today that lends weight to this comparison and thought that I should share.

Dennis Fisher wrote an excellent article on Threatpost about research done on the Conficker botnet. The good folks at Kaspersky Labs have analyzed the P2P network that Conficker uses to send updates to infected machines. Turns out that there are only around 200,000 computers connected to the botnet. Talk of Conficker's famed 'sleep mode' notwithstanding, 200,000 is a big number, but it is a far cry from the global calamity that some sources were predicting.

Which brings me back to Y2K. After years of hype, the clock struck twelve and nothing happened. Well, almost nothing - a few slot machines stopped working and some alarms sounded, but still, Y2K was a far cry from the global calamity that many predicted.