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April Fools Conficker Cyberworm
PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:52 pm
by ChristianKitsune
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/128643http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/132464http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511813,00.htmlhttp://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/worms/conficker.mspxEdit: 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...
PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:02 pm
by Tsukuyomi
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?
PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:16 am
by nicktk1
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
PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:12 am
by Whitefang
Washington Post confirms conficker
attacks
Read the whole thing!
PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:55 am
by ShiroiHikari
Whitefang (post: 1302542) wrote:Washington Post confirms conficker
attacksRead the whole thing!
Lol.
PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:58 am
by LadyRushia
Heheheheheh
PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:22 am
by Roy Mustang
Tomorrow, tomorrow...
We already have a thread about this.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:27 pm
by ChristianKitsune
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.. ^^;
PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:19 pm
by Lady Kenshin
Anybody know what happened with that? Anything?
PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:31 pm
by KagayakiWashi
Alright, I apologize for my statement.
PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:42 pm
by Roy Mustang
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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PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:04 pm
by RobinSena
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.
PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:14 pm
by Mithrandir
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