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Ear worm, anyone? reeves General Discussion 29 07-20-2009 10:51 PM

Conficker Worm

 
Old 03-31-2009 at 11:13 PM   #1
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Conficker Worm
Apparently a worm is supposed to infect many computers today. Read the following for more information:

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/128643


So yeah, watch out.
Old 03-31-2009 at 11:26 PM   #2
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I didn't get infected I saw it on the news today and made sure my antivirus was updated ... lol first time in a while
Old 04-01-2009 at 09:43 AM   #3
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Yeah... I haven't been bothered at all... I can see how corporate computers and other things like that could be targets, but it seems WAY blown out of proportion for the general public. I saw a few polls and about 75% of people were not worried about it. Just a good media story perhaps? I don't know... may be too soon...
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Old 04-01-2009 at 10:14 AM   #4
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maybe its a big april fools joke on all you poopy pc users
Old 04-01-2009 at 10:24 AM   #5
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the same thing happened last year on April fools.... someone said a HUGE virus was going around...blah blah...
i think its an april fools joke!
Old 04-01-2009 at 12:09 PM   #6
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Quote:
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maybe its a big april fools joke on all you poopy pc users
the article Nino mentioned was dated a week ago.
Conficker is a real virus. The April Fools part has to do with the fact SOME creators of viruses (not necessarily conficker, but others) think it would be funny to make all of the infected computers break on a certain day, April Fools is just the type of day they'd like. And I'm sure there have been known viruses which have been programmed to start on april fools day.


pc stands for personal computer.
macs are PCs as well.
Old 04-01-2009 at 12:36 PM   #7
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Quote:
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pc stands for personal computer.
macs are PCs as well.
HA! to all you elitist Mac users!
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Old 04-01-2009 at 12:40 PM   #8
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I don't even have a laptop anymore. :( Mine doesn't work anymore so I borrowed a friend's for the week.
Old 04-01-2009 at 12:42 PM   #9
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Awesome friend! I wouldn't be able to do that, I use mine too much
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Old 04-01-2009 at 12:47 PM   #10
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Yeah, let's just hope I just don't catch the worm in the laptop. lol this is the worst time for my laptop to die on me.



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