#1 way to stop virus infections: patch regularly.
Turn on automatic updates (even pirates get those), and if windows
says "I have new patches", install them IMMEDIATELY.
All the major news-hitting viruses (storm worm, conficker, redalert)
have come out over a month after the vulnerability was patched. Why
hunt for a flaw yourself when you can reverse a patch, and take out
all the silly people that never installed it?
Patching regularly will ward away 80%+ of computer issues.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Scrapper Black Dragon
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> Considering this virus has been around a while and uses an exploit that has already been patched on Windows computers, there shouldn't be anything out of the ordinary. If you patches are up to date and your anti-virus is running, then you are not likely to have any problems.
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> A quick Google search does wonders!
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker
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> Scrapper, Black Dragon, popular opinion does not make something correct.
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> Subject: [SkunkworksAMA] Rumored Conficker Virus ("Super Virus")
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> As some of you may have heard, the activation of the Russian Conficker Virus is set to activate midnight tonight (or so it is said). It's been around for a while already, but it's planning to give the full effect of Internet chaos...
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