April 1st = Conficker Worm attacks? OH ****
Beware Conficker worm come April 1 : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech
I thought this was nothing, but to my surprise, it's all over the net, just a heads up guys, be careful, me im personally unplugging my ethernet and shutting down my PC for the day for safety reasons.
PS: Mac and Linux users, please, just please, dont bring the crap here.
I heard that the latest Microsoft Update is supposed to take care of this, so I updated everything yesterday.
That being said, it may be a good idea to not connect to the internet tomorrow, just in case. I don't know all of the details, so better safe than sorry.
damn that sucks i hope my pc dont get sick.
You know what gets me? Why would someone smart enoght to code a virus that complicated do it? seems like there coluld be a lot more productive things to do whith that ability.
Some people enjoy sadistic pleasures.
Well goddamnit.
Can any of the techie crowd here shed some more light on this?
is this real or just an april fools joke, cuz no internet for a day will kill me D=
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We dont know, If it is, then it's one of the largest internet April Fools in history, but it was also on CNN, and they honestly dont have the balls to try something like that, so.....we dont know.Originally Posted by G3ORGE
Skynet.What's known so far is that on April 1, all infected computers will come under the control of a master machine located somewhere across the web, at which point anything's possible.
Damn that Cubia.
Oh, really? It's all fun and games until somebody gets herpes.We dont know, If it is, then it's one of the largest internet April Fools in history, but it was also on CNN, and they honestly dont have the balls to try something like that, so.....we dont know.
If you've had an automatic update anytime recently through Windows Update then you should be safe. This worm disables auto updates. I think you can still do manual installs, though.
It'll be interesting to see what it does when it activates. afaik they haven't really pinpointed its purpose, just its activation dates and symptoms so far.
You know, this raises an important question. How do they know about it when it's not supposed to begin spreading until tomorrow? I think one of the people researching it must have been the one that wrote it, and it only "researching" it to look less suspicious.
Or has it already been spreading for a while, and only has yet to activate?
(If it exists, of course.)
it's been spreading. the "activation" date is supposedly tomorrow.
Conficker Worm? Man, if I was the creator of a top virus, I'd name it something like Farty Farty Poo Bum just to make the news people read out silly words.
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