• Conficker keeps on ficking

    Posted on August 12, 2009 at 07:46 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Why don’t we hear anything about the Conficker worm these days?

    Rob Rosenberger says it’s boring, so the media’s lost interest. The threat’s still there. Conficker is still out infecting lots and lots and lots of Windows XP machines. But there’s no spectacular new, uh, news, so Conficker no longer rates as a good water cooler discussion topic.

    Too bad. I’m going to great lengths to upgrade all of my XP machines – and all of my friends’ and clients’ XP machines – to Windows 7, specifically because of Conficker.

    While Windows 7 is far from impervious, it’s a couple of orders of magnitude more difficult to crack than XP. (At least, if you don’t count ActiveX controls – but don’t get me started.)

    Conficker alone should have you worried enough to look at upgrading. It’s still out there, even if you don’t hear about it.

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