Call it old news, but on April 1st (It's already in some places but not here) a worm called Conficker C might cause damages in the computers that are infected by it. The news has been running on the Net for about a week. Take care of your little baby, see if there's no crap in it.

Thanks for information. But still, i cant get the damn point - why people keep making this stuff? And i belive that there wouldnt be any excuse if one of those f***faces is caught.

The point is....It's cyber graffiti/vandalism. No reason, just bored kids with no life who like to make some fame for themselves among their peers. They need to get a girlfriend.

It created mess in my company over the last 1-2 months. I didn't get it on my work desktop, but one of my dev machines did, the bi*ch disables windows update, had to use some MS' removal tool.

Btw, MS offered $250,000 for info leading to the authors. And this certainly wasn't made by kids.

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It created mess in my company over the last 1-2 months. I didn't get it on my work desktop, but one of my dev machines did, the bi*ch disables windows update, had to use some MS' removal tool.

Btw, MS offered $250,000 for info leading to the authors. And this certainly wasn't made by kids.

Dude, it's as fake as the tits on Jordan.

The fact that I've looked and there's no reference of this on McAfee, Symantec, AVG, or AVAST makes me know it.

Dude. Conflicker is a spamming virus.
It doesn't attack your computer, All the other Conflicker virus's didn't all they did was spam.
Before the other conflicker virus, before it got patched by microsoft it only spammed the internet, spam e-mail, going on websites causing lag all the time.
But now the new conflicker is designed to (for every computer infected) go on 50,000 websites daily and also send spam e-mail without you knowing so. You won't really even know that you are infected because it doesn't attack your system, it might but they said it shouldn't because of the other conflickers didn't.
But this is all i read on the internet a few days ago....
Edit- and also s14 drifter i have seen on McAfee forum they are talking about the conflicker virus. No one knows what it does for sure.. so it might mess up your computer completely or it might not.
(think my bro had this, he had to redo his comp 2 days ago, the virus started messing around with his computer and doing stuff to his bios lol)

Wow, your Google skills must really suck...

http://www.mcafee.com/us/threat_center/conficker.html
http://www.symantec.com/norton ... sp?themeid=conficker_worm

And frankly there's a been a lot of discussion on almost every IT related board/forum about it over the last few months...

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Dude, it's as fake as the tits on Jordan.

The fact that I've looked and there's no reference of this on McAfee, Symantec, AVG, or AVAST makes me know it.

Yowzer..? You actually looked? With what?

I was skeptical on this until I saw it on my Avast scanner. Yikes!

E. On a weird side/coincidence note, my Windows update, and BITS are NOT working

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Certain Microsoft Windows services such as Automatic Updates, Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), Windows Defender and Error Reporting Services disabled.

As long as I can still browse the net from work tomorrow...

Fingers crossed my good ol' Kaspersky will keep me free, cant say ive had a virus through it yet .

As for the Reason people do this? To show there intelligence to the world, big comapnys see there coding skills they can sometime's get employed to find holes in programs and such. or maybe my theory is total crap and that isnt the reason xD but thats my opinion.

I hated that worm to Hell. I found it on my dad's computer and it actually stopped firefox from working at all. Luckily I already had AVG installed in it so I scanned and what do you know, downadup was there (a form of conficker). I deleted the files it had but it was still there so I had to manually go through the registry, windows files, etc. just to get the crap off and it took forever.

well, nothing has happened yet

^ Same here - although this is a fairly fresh install of windows XP. I wonder how my older PC is doing .

well confilicter is not just a spamming virus, it can totally disable login, this is what happenend with the nhs in kent(my dad works for east and coastal kent pct doing it support) but it i old news and if you havent had a problem yet you wont tbh

1) Does it affect Macs/iPod Touches???

2) If I boot up in safe mode, with my wireless switch off, and give it the Kaspersky Scan at max safety settings, run malwarebytes, should I be fine?

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1) Does it affect Macs/iPod Touches???

2) If I boot up in safe mode, with my wireless switch off, and give it the Kaspersky Scan at max safety settings, run malwarebytes, should I be fine?

People who have installed windoze onto their Mac boxes will be at risk.

I'm not sure that the regular AV picks it up yet, probably deends on which you use and how up-to-date it is.

A tool to scan your network for it and removal instructions are here - http://iv.cs.uni-bonn.de/wg/cs ... ons/containing-conficker/

This is what happens when the media gets involved.

Ok. Uhm.. :hide:

Either way, it's very overrated. It's like any other worm, but oh no. - April fools. EVERYONE RUN AND PREPARE FOR THE DEATH OF THE PC.

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Yowzer..? You actually looked? With what?

http://www.google.co.uk/search ... B316&start=0&sa=N

Nothing on the first 3 pages that came back from Symantecs own website that I saw. I'm not a loser so I didn't bother looking anymore.

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I was skeptical on this until I saw it on my Avast scanner. Yikes!

E. On a weird side/coincidence note, my Windows update, and BITS are NOT working

How ironic. Same here on Vista

This feels like a Y2K 2.0. Seriously.

"Oh, yes, it'll be terrible, millions of computers will be infected, the whole thing will crash, then it'll start raining dishwashers, and the SUN WILL EXPLODE!!1111oneoneleven"

"Oh, yes, unless you have installed a Windows update available since october '08. And unless you have an up to date anti-virus. And unless you're a total idiot who clicks on malicious links every 2 minutes. Yes, it'll be terrible."

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http://www.google.co.uk/search ... ...6&start=0&sa=N

Nothing on the first 3 pages that came back from Symantecs own website that I saw. I'm not a loser so I didn't bother looking anymore.

Because you spelled it wrong: it's not Cornflicker, it's Conficker

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This feels like a Y2K 2.0. Seriously.

"Oh, yes, it'll be terrible, millions of computers will be infected, the whole thing will crash, ... (skipping pointless rant)

"Oh, yes, unless you have installed a Windows update available since october '08. And unless you have an up to date anti-virus. And unless you're a total idiot who clicks on malicious links every 2 minutes. Yes, it'll be terrible."

It has already infected an estimated 10-15 mil. PCs?? And our dev machines are win 2003 with auto updates and antivir installed, and no one uses them for email or internet since we have desktops for that. And we're far, far, from being idiots when it comes to computers. A large number of the machines still got infected.

It is a bit overrated as is the case with anything media touches, but perhaps people should inform themselves a little better before posting. You can't say it's like any other worm, it created a lot of nuisance for the IT and engineers at my work, and we're far from being the only one. You can find a lot of info on the net if you search, just make sure you spell it right...

HAHAHAH :doh: oops.

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I was skeptical on this until I saw it on my Avast scanner. Yikes!

E. On a weird side/coincidence note, my Windows update, and BITS are NOT working

If windoze update and BITS are not running, go into services.msc, set them to automatic and start them.

If they are disabled again once you reboot the PC then you probably have some form of crap on there as services don't disable themselves, something has to be causing it, not necessarily conficker though.

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our dev machines are win 2003 with auto updates and antivir installed, and no one uses them for email or internet since we have desktops for that. And we're far, far, from being idiots when it comes to computers. A large number of the machines still got infected...

I don't want to insult anyone there but your devs or admins must have done something wrong.
Else everyone / every company would have gotten infected, right?

Computer with a proper password policy and current security updates, antivir/security software and secured shares can't get infected by win32/conficker A, B,C or D.

The rest is media hype as always.

btw.
you don't need the internet to get an infected PC, USB drives or sticks or open shares are enough.