• Conficker’s All Fools Day

    Posted on March 28, 2009 at 05:27 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

    I know it’s true because I read it in … let’s see … where was that? Oh, it’s right here in the newspaper. Just above the ad for washing machines. Yeah, see that? Toldja so.

    Gimme a break. Yes, Conficker is changing on April 1. No, you don’t need to worry about it.

    There’s an excellent, reasoned blog post about Conficker on the F-Secure site. What? An antivirus manufacturer says you don’t need to panic, while the venerable Sun says “MILLIONS of computers around the world could go into meltdown on April 1 because of a deadly virus.” Gawrsh. And they have a very nice ad for washing machines, too.

    If you’re still running Windows XP, it would behoove you to hop over to the F-Secure Q&A. Down at the bottom, there’s a link to the F-Secure scanner, which will detect and remove all known versions of Conficker.

    And you won’t get hit up about dirty laundry…

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