According to some sources, Conficker virus was set to "Call Home" the April
1st.
What to do? ... well, more like to get orders and download a new -enhanced-
version of itself.
Doomsday? ... no, at least not yet.
I bet that the creator(s) will have more interest on a zombie net rather than
killing the computers, so, they will try to do not loose the machines already
infected.
Recommendations?
If you are a Windows user, get your Windows up to date.
Of course, there also other solutions, that include to switch to either MacOSX
or Linux.
At least (for me) I have become less concerned about those odd worms, because
they do not spread that quick on Linux, and cross platform are less common.
PS: Nothing big will happen, but if you suspect of your system being infected,
scan, revise, update... and why not, do a fresh install.
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 21:38:29 Scrapper Black Dragon wrote:
> 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.
>
> A quick Google search does wonders!
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker
>
> Scrapper, Black Dragon, popular opinion does not make something correct.
>
>
> --- On Thu, 2/4/09, author_ex <authorx_at_rocketmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: author_ex <authorx_at_rocketmail.com>
> Subject: [SkunkworksAMA] Rumored Conficker Virus ("Super Virus")
>
> 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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Received on Thu Apr 02 2009 - 00:32:09 CDT