Looks like you were proven right.

Ars Technica at least agrees:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/week-in-review-was-conficker-a-bust-edition.ars

hear hear jwenting.

I might be showing utter ignorance and denial for this possible change, but put it this way:

you can make a robot that can fix failing hardware, but what happens when the...