<A target="_blank" href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/conficker-dooms.html">It sounds like an April Fool's joke</A>, hold computers around the world hostage, terrorize people into thinking the worst, then try to sell them a fake anti-virus package. In the meantime, all the infected machines are now part of a botnet army to send out yet more spam.