Head on over to the SRI International web site to read a general technical analysis of the Conficker worm, or read the detailed analysis of Conficker.C. Both documents are very informative reading. I was quite surprised to find that Conficker uses a sophisticated peer-to-peer communication scheme and, in newer revisions, very new cutting edge encryption algorithms developed at MIT.
Remember, always keep your firewall and antivirus software running and up-to-date. Conficker.C has great potential to do lots of damage and to spread quickly.
