Security experts eye worm attack

[GommeInc]

This reminds me of that crappy film Evan Almighty.

"It's April the first... We're still here... Awkward....!"

[Niall!]

Conflicker has been around for months and months.

[hamheyelliot]

'Conficker', which derives from the German for the swear word with four letters... has actually been around since 2000 under the name 'Gimmiv'.

Since then, it has spread from variant A, B, C, which had the intention of spreading themselves and seizing some aspects of infected computers.

The D Variant is now more focused on defending itself, and it cannot spread to other computers at this moment in time; But it is said it will await instruction by randomly generated domains.

You should probably take this a whole lot more seriously. Microsoft is issuing $250,000 to anyone with information on the whereabouts of the creators.

[GommeInc]

'Conficker', which derives from the German for the swear word with four letters... has actually been around since 2000 under the name 'Gimmiv'.

Since then, it has spread from variant A, B, C, which had the intention of spreading themselves and seizing some aspects of infected computers.

The D Variant is now more focused on defending itself, and it cannot spread to other computers at this moment in time; But it is said it will await instruction by randomly generated domains.

You should probably take this a whole lot more seriously. Microsoft is issuing $250,000 to anyone with information on the whereabouts of the creators.

That's not alot really... They could pay-out more than that.

[Absently]

Oh on that omegle site thing, somebody started talking about this, and wanted to give people it.. and i didn't know what it was, so i googled.. and they were like ''say goodbye to your precious files'' LOL.

[J0SH]

WOW, So every major media group decided to play a joke on 15 million people? Wow, you're gullable. Go google how some virus' work.

You're a moron, typical the 'hackers' failed to get the 'virus' to 'work' because it was part of the April Fools joke. :rolleyes:

[Laggings]

It's called viral marketing, To get more ratings. Seriously.

I can see 1 media company doing it, not everyone! And further more, there was an update on the virus. It up'd it's attempts to phone home to get commands from the creator. It did change itself, just not in the way a lot of people thought.

You're a moron, typical the 'hackers' failed to get the 'virus' to 'work' because it was part of the April Fools joke. :rolleyes:

OMG It was an Aprils Fool Joke that has been around for over 3 years? It's called google, seriously. Google the virus and you'll see it's real. People just overreacted on what it was going to do.

[J0SH]

The real thing could have been around for years but the article based on that the virus was going to strike 15 million computers yesterday was an April Fools joke, can you not get that into your tiny little brain?

[Laggings]

The real thing could have been around for years but the article based on that the virus was going to strike 15 million computers yesterday was an April Fools joke, can you not get that into your tiny little brain?

It's not GOING to strike 15M computers, it already has! It was what it was going to do with those 15M computers it already had in it's control. Can you not get that into your tiny little brain?

Security experts are downplaying the potential impact of a virus which some believe is set to strike on 1 April.

Conficker has infected up to 15 million computers to date and is set to change the way it works on Wednesday.

There have been some reports the worm could trigger poisoned machines to access personal files, send spam, clog networks or crash sites.

"We don't know what will happen but don't expect anything dramatic," Symantec's Vincent Weafer told the BBC.

[J0SH]

Okay let me rephrase that, "the way it'll work on the 15M computers is just part of the April Fools joke." happy?