Gerri Shin

  

Male
Burbank, CA
Seen February 17th, 2014
Posted April 13th, 2013
3,575 posts
15.9 Years
I'm just going to hold off on allowing a freshly installed windows 7 VM to connect to the internet until after the 1st. that should cover me pretty well.
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Rukario

Banned

Somewhere in Ilex Forest
Seen April 6th, 2019
Posted March 17th, 2019
7,587 posts
20.7 Years
a properly patched and updated windows machine running a quality, updated anti-virus app should have no issues with this threat.

Its those unpatched, older systems that we need to worry about.. The overall effect may or may not affect the net or you just night see a spike in spam levels..


bottom line is; I guess we'll find out on April 1st.. ironically April Fool's Day.. lol

Ivysaur

Grass dinosaur extraordinaire

Age 32
He/him
Madrid, Europe
Seen 1 Day Ago
Posted April 5th, 2023
21,076 posts
16.2 Years
Unfortunately i think i am part of that 30%.Hopefully not and i am safe.
...have you updated Windows since October? Most Microsoft computers have automatic Windows Update dowloads as default, so being unprotected is somewhat harder than the opposite.

EmeraldSky

Make the Colors in the Sky!

At the arcade, playing DDR with Ash
Online now
Posted 1 Week Ago
6,203 posts
18.6 Years
AVG and Spybot are working just fine, so I'm not infected.
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Zet

Age 33
Male
Brisbane, Australia
Seen September 29th, 2021
Posted May 16th, 2020
7,687 posts
15.7 Years
AVG and Spybot are working just fine, so I'm not infected.
AVG and Spybot you say!!?!?!?!??? my god, you're already infected D; update to something that isn't crap.

Also has there been any real proof of this said virus?

EmeraldSky

Make the Colors in the Sky!

At the arcade, playing DDR with Ash
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Posted 1 Week Ago
6,203 posts
18.6 Years
I have also scanned for this virus and I came out clean
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The First Sparkling Stage (Waku)
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The Global Stage (Unova)/The Stage of Paradise (Alola)
The Shimmering Stage (Waku)

Zet

Age 33
Male
Brisbane, Australia
Seen September 29th, 2021
Posted May 16th, 2020
7,687 posts
15.7 Years
of course you came out clean, it's not April 1st yet. Also you might wanna read over a few other topics involving anti-viruses to know how bad of a protection you're using


also here's a thanks to Blazichu for giving me this link http://www.bdtools.net/ bitdefender has released a tool that will remove conficker
Age 15
Seen August 6th, 2010
Posted February 27th, 2010
822 posts
18.8 Years
its just a hoax. look what happened when the Y2K came out and everyone freaked that their computers were going to blow up or something. same thing here.

If you are that paranoid, just unplug your internet for the day and get back on the next.
Y2k was a rumor that something bad would happen due to electronics not being able to register the year as 2000. This is a much smaller hoax.
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revelp8

My mohawk is on fiiiyaaaa!

Male
California
Seen July 6th, 2012
Posted April 7th, 2012
522 posts
15 Years
I've read all of that stuff about how it attacks security programs and being able to manipulate microsoft servers and completely shutting them down. but on the other hand, a worm being released on April fools day? c'mon, if that doesn't scream HOAX right in your ears, i don't know what else to say.

Even if its released, only big companies using (assuming from what i've read) are only affected by this worm. People using networks at home aren't affected at all, IF they aren't using the big company's network.

But why the big scare? its just rumors fueling more rumors.

Zet

Age 33
Male
Brisbane, Australia
Seen September 29th, 2021
Posted May 16th, 2020
7,687 posts
15.7 Years
I've read all of that stuff about how it attacks security programs and being able to manipulate microsoft servers and completely shutting them down. but on the other hand, a worm being released on April fools day? c'mon, if that doesn't scream HOAX right in your ears, i don't know what else to say.

Even if its released, only big companies using (assuming from what i've read) are only affected by this worm. People using networks at home aren't affected at all, IF they aren't using the big company's network.

But why the big scare? its just rumors fueling more rumors.
yeah, I'm sure home users would love losing their credit card and bank details from conficker

Ho-Oh

used Sacred Fire!

Age 31
Female
QLD, Australia
Seen June 5th, 2022
Posted April 23rd, 2022
35,988 posts
17.5 Years
It greatly scares me. :D I have no virus protection and amazingly I do believe it's real. XD;