The Conficker worm is scheduled to activate on April 1, and the unanswered question is – Will it prove to be the worlds biggest April Fools joke or is it the information age equivalent of Herman Kahns legendary 1962 treatise about nuclear war, Thinking About the Unthinkable? Conficker is a program that is spread by exploiting several weaknesses in Microsofts Windows operating system. Various versions of the software have spread widely around the globe since October, mostly outside the United States because there are more computers overseas running unpatched Windows