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Conficker-the major virus bomb of 09 said to lay down its might on april 1st.

Mitchman

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    So yeah do you think the doom of conficker will be upon us on that date? Are you taking measures for your computer? I know i am i really dont want to be infected with it or anything but im sure nod32 will do just fine for me protecting it and all.
     
    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.
     
    Problem is that conficker might be actively destroying computers around the world after the 1st.
     
    Idk, i think its just some people threatening to put a virus out. Considering the date scheduled is April 1st...
     
    The potential scale of infection is large because 30 percent of Windows computers do not have the Microsoft Windows patch released in October 2008 to block this vulnerability.
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    This gives me a bloated sense of security, having accepted all updates except IE7.
     
    Unfortunately i think i am part of that 30%.Hopefully not and i am safe.
     
    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
     
    I have a Macbook Pro and an iMac so I'll just sit back and laugh at all the PC-users misfortune.
     
    That was mean. Real mean. But yeah I am not all too worried i jut posted this to see if others are and if they took measures. I do not want any of our members to be infected. although there are some people that tend to piss me off and i think should rot
     
    Mitchman Is said:
    Unfortunately i think i am part of that 30%.Hopefully not and i am safe.
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    ...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.
     
    Yeah automatic. So then im safe. YAY! Oh well then i hope nothing happens. But i wanna see what happens and how bad the internet will be.
     
    I'm so sure that this is a hoax that I'm willing to downgrade my system.
     
    I dunno. I updated last night just to be safe. As for IE, I recently upgraded to IE8, so no problems there. We'll just have to see what happens on April 1st *shrugs*
     
    AVG and Spybot are working just fine, so I'm not infected.
     
    I have also scanned for this virus and I came out clean
     
    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.
     
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