PC Virus "Time Bomb" set to go off within hours

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:07 pm

Known as Conficker, and no one knows why it was made or what it'll do next:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511813,00.html

Johan_H · Post by **Johan_H** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:09 pm

Do we have a chance to survive? Perhaps I should make my time?

Would a Skynet reference have been funnier?

Do you seriously not realize this is an April fools'?

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:36 pm

http://mtc.sri.com/Conficker/addendumC/index.html

Some pretty in depth data on the virus itself. Of course, they can't know what the final payload will be, since that hasn't been released, yet. As far as it being april fools, who knows whether it'll be a harmless joke to see how hysterical people will get or some cruel effort to bring down some useful websites, or just bomb everyone with more shitty spam and advertising.

kode54 · Post by **kode54** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:32 am

None of this would have been a problem if people would just patch their software in a timely fashion.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:42 am

http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwa ... fault.mspx

Seems like my system is clean. <phew>

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:00 am

Johan_H wrote:Do we have a chance to survive? Perhaps I should make my time?

Would a Skynet reference have been funnier?

Do you seriously not realize this is an April fools'?

Uh, Conflicker's been in the news for weeks now, dude.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:29 am

Well.... at least it isn't another god-damned Visual Basic mass-mailer script.
Someone ACTUALLY CODED something this time.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:11 am

http://www.avira.com/en/security_news/c ... _worm.html

For those who don't patch their systems, AntiVir can kill the worm.

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:42 am

Ive seen it

I havent done anything about it

Ill probably fry

then Ill restore from backup on my storage drive and go through some really uncool stuff

and then Ill probably be alright

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:19 pm

paulguy wrote:http://mtc.sri.com/Conficker/addendumC/index.html

Some pretty in depth data on the virus itself. Of course, they can't know what the final payload will be,

tub butar is the payload. Topic creator is the sekret.

Johan_H · Post by **Johan_H** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:13 pm

I.S.T. wrote:Uh, Conflicker's been in the news for weeks now, dude.

Not in the news I read it hasn't. The article just looked way too silly to be real.

kode54 · Post by **kode54** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:46 pm

Johan_H wrote:
I.S.T. wrote:Uh, Conflicker's been in the news for weeks now, dude.
Not in the news I read it hasn't. The article just looked way too silly to be real.

Silly? How about this?

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:07 pm

Johan_H wrote:
I.S.T. wrote:Uh, Conflicker's been in the news for weeks now, dude.
Not in the news I read it hasn't. The article just looked way too silly to be real.

your news sucks

but so does fox news

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:37 pm

sweener2001 wrote:
Johan_H wrote:
I.S.T. wrote:Uh, Conflicker's been in the news for weeks now, dude.
Not in the news I read it hasn't. The article just looked way too silly to be real.
your news sucks

but so does fox news

FOX IS FAIR AND BALANCED

OH WAI...

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:49 pm

news made by entertainment companies... hmmm..... and people don't understand why that might be a conflict of interest.

read: ALL televised news.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:43 am

So the virus started a nuclear war.
I knew idiots with PCs would be the death of us.

And I am unsurprised that ZSNES Board is hell.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:50 pm

i'm a bit relieved that nothing major happened.

although it could just be a trap

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:35 pm

sweener2001 wrote:i'm a bit relieved that nothing major happened.

although it could just be a trap

Oh, it happened.

You just missed it.

Post by **grinvader** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:07 am

Gil_Hamilton wrote:And I am unsurprised that ZSNES Board is hell.

Hey, stigmata left. Be grateful or smth.