Conficker Worm Discussion (esp. 1 April, 2009)

[Grant A.]

A lot of buzz has been generated in the media lately over Conficker and the mysterious april fools day date for it. People have said that Conficker could do a number of different things on April fools day.

I think that it is a bunch of hype.

Discuss

[Giant Speck]

April is the fourth month of the year.

[Grant A.]

April is the fourth month of the year.

Oops, I wasn't paying attention when I typed that. Could someone please change it to 4/1/09? >.<

[jimi_hendrix]

i think its a decent threat

but we run linux!

[So Tough]

Not my problem

[MikeTheC]

My Vista partition is up to date, and everything else isn't Windows.

I'm also very, very careful where I surf and what I do on the Windows partition, simply because I do school work and cannot afford to have it get compromised. Hopefully within the next few months I'll be upgrading other hardware and then (while I'll still practice safe habits when in Windows) it will no longer matter so much.

[Mohamedzv2]

It is way overhyped. Mostly only 3rd word countries will get the virus cause most developed countries don't have pirated windows or unpatched machines.

[jimi_hendrix]

wrong thread

[Sealbhach]

It did a similar update on January 1st. We're all still here.


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[Polygon]

all its doing is just updating itself on that date, it doesn't mean the world is going to end, its just going to make it harder for researches and all that to corner/defeat it.

and its not just third world countries,, there are plenty of people who never update their computers, which i have no idea how that is possible considering how aggressive microsoft is about forcefully updating and even restarting your computer if it has to.