April Fools Conficker Cyberworm

Postby **ChristianKitsune** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:52 pm

I'm not sure if this is old news or not, but I saw this on the news today...this is really important for Windows users. Apparently, there's a serious cyber worm that is supposed to be let lose April 1st that will infect 50,000 computers a day. Scary thing is, they don't know will happen, or what this worm will actually do! (it could be as bad as taking banking information, killing hard drives and stuff like that O_O; ) So Windows users are urged to take EXTRA precaution, update your stuff and get the lastest updates on your antivirus protection!

More info about this can be found at the following sites:

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/128643

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/132464

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511813,00.html
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/worms/conficker.mspx

Edit: Whoops... I think there's another April fool's day thread that talks about this ^^; didn't think that the title suggested that...umm sorry if this is a problem...

Postby **Tsukuyomi** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:02 pm

Gaaaaaah, as if I wasn't already having problems with viruses and trojans @___@

Hmmm, how do we know this so called "worm" isn't just an April Fool's joke o.o?

Hmm, I guess better safe then sorry, right o_o?

Postby **nicktk1** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:16 am

sounds like a joke...but i dont know...
if your experiencing problems with your computer look at bleepingcomputer.com ( i think thats it...if not google is your friend) they will fix you right up

Postby **Whitefang** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:12 am

Washington Post confirms conficker attacks

Read the whole thing!

Postby **ShiroiHikari** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:55 am

Whitefang (post: 1302542) wrote:Washington Post confirms conficker attacks

Read the whole thing!

Lol.

Postby **LadyRushia** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:58 am

Heheheheheh

Postby **Roy Mustang** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:22 am

Tomorrow, tomorrow...

We already have a thread about this.

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Postby **ChristianKitsune** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:27 pm

Roy Mustang (post: 1302569) wrote:Tomorrow, tomorrow...

We already have a thread about this.

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yes. i didnt know that at the time... the title didnt really suggest that, and I did mention at the opening that there was already one.. ^^;

Postby **Lady Kenshin** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:19 pm

Anybody know what happened with that? Anything?

Postby **KagayakiWashi** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:31 pm

Alright, I apologize for my statement.

Postby **Roy Mustang** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:42 pm

KagayakiWashi wrote:A bunch of losers with no girlfriends got a big laugh over a hoax that made national news.

Not true. They still don't know what this virus is program to do.

A few weeks ago, it started to come to life. But it was only sending signals from the PC's that had the virus to the hackers.

So far, that is the only thing that it has done.

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Postby **RobinSena** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:04 pm

KagayakiWashi (post: 1306512) wrote:A bunch of losers with no girlfriends got a big laugh over a hoax that made national news.

Yay for showing the love of Christ.

Postby **Mithrandir** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:14 pm

This is definately a serious security issue that needs to be addressed. The real problem is that this was prevented in an update by microsoft in october. Enough people are using illegal copies of windows (or have security updates disabled) that this is still an issue. !!! The attack payload will be dissected in this thursday/friday's Security Now podcast:

http://www.leoville.tv/podcasts/sn.xml

April Fools Conficker Cyberworm

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