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- benroy, on 04/26/2009, -4/+252Norton Internet Security.
Worst. Virus. Ever. - EH90, on 04/26/2009, -0/+107Here's a chart to check if you've possibly been infected: http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/infection_tes ...
- xenovis, on 04/26/2009, -0/+79Good story Symantec, welcome to 18 days ago when Conficker started dropping a modified variant of Conficker-A, and Waledac in some cases.
Symantec is trying to make up for the fact that their VP Steve Trilling publicly over hyped the Conficker worm, and contrary to his statements in his embarrassing 60-Minutes interview/advertisement where he explained that on 4/1 the world was basically going to explode, and when 4/1 came the security community watched as nothing happened.... as predicted by nearly every other AV company. Then 6 days later Conficker "updated" itself with a version publicly available 2 months prior.
Good Story Symantec, keep up the great work. - vortex22222, on 04/26/2009, -7/+84Is anyone else rooting for Conficker? Since I'm not infected (and I would imagine not many Digg users are, either) It's kind of fun to sit back and watch everything happen from a distance.
I hope it does something wonderfully terrible. - wondertwins, on 04/26/2009, -1/+72im thinking a mass rick roll
- j0rd0n420, on 04/26/2009, -13/+72I'm a PC and I'm not an idiot.
- chasemassey, on 04/26/2009, -0/+50I like virus stories.
Reminds me of when I started paying attention to tech back when the "I Love You" virus first started spreading. - bjornski, on 04/26/2009, -2/+41I LOL'd at the "imaged turned off in browser?" line.
Neat chart. - xenovis, on 04/26/2009, -0/+31Using a combo of AV's is nearly always counter productive. Most AV's install kernel hooks through their array of drivers. This means that most AV's fight with themselves under the covers in the kernel, leading to miss detection because the hooks are not established correctly, and machine slowness. Install a good single AV solution, is the best advice I have to offer.
- dxprog, on 04/26/2009, -0/+28No, I think digg is always like that.
- JohnFlux, on 04/26/2009, -0/+25Or to put it more simply:
Follow the money. - Shazbuckle, on 04/26/2009, -2/+27I'm not too worried I'm not retarded
- ptFoe, on 04/26/2009, -1/+24Windows connecting more people ever than before
- stnick5, on 04/26/2009, -3/+24Yep. I used to have it installed. Went for over a year without any virus complaints from it. Then I uninstalled it (which took nearly two hours) and installed Avast. I believe it found over 600+ infections within the first five minutes of scanning.
- plumcider, on 04/26/2009, -3/+22Does the fact that I think that would be awesome make me hopelessly lame?
Oh, who cares. That WOULD be awesome. XD - inactive, on 04/26/2009, -3/+21"combo of antivirus" "careful regarding sites"
The latter makes the former quite redundant. Most people who exercise proper caution never even need one AV program. Why torture your poor computer with more than that? - ryan83189, on 04/26/2009, -0/+18You never know when you are going to get link jacked.
- Tddupre, on 04/26/2009, -0/+17proably installing "pay per install" adware to make money
- freshgrease, on 04/26/2009, -1/+18Time to play Botnet vs Botnet.
- JKAL, on 04/26/2009, -9/+23when you are older than 14, you may understand that although most peoples choice of OS is some flavour of *nix, most still need to use MS based OSs for a thing call work and large scale enterprise infrastructures, but I will not confuse you just yet, you should get back to your moms basement and pretend you are l33t using your Ubuntu.
- DarkShroud, on 04/26/2009, -0/+14To a degree it means more work for me repairing people's PCs.
- Marshalrusty, on 04/26/2009, -3/+16Can we get some "experts" who actually know something regarding security?
From what I see, this is just more FUD. - arbulus, on 04/26/2009, -1/+14in the US it's mm/dd/yyyy. it's dd/mm/yyyy elsewhere.
- DarkShroud, on 04/26/2009, -23/+36Yeah you have other things to worry about. Like spenind hours reading forums posts to get hardware or software running after eding config files.
- techdever, on 04/26/2009, -2/+14a mac is a pc too, you idiot
- Codename, on 04/26/2009, -27/+38I'm not too worried I use Linux.
- inactive, on 04/26/2009, -4/+15I'm curious how products advertised in the spams got into the virus, they've got in touch with the author of the virus at some point, either directly or indirectly through a 'reseller'. If we want to know who the author of the virus is, why not make the spammers talk, I've heard waterboarding is a good method.
- xino, on 04/26/2009, -1/+12www.grc.com/securitynow If you go there and listen to episode 193, you'll get a very good idea of what conficker does.
- DarkShroud, on 04/26/2009, -0/+11Installing free software comes after I repair the damage. In many cases I have to back up the user data and then reinstall the OS because it's been so damaged by malware. Thankfully on Vista systems I don't see the same Trojan/Adware/Malware infected disasters I used to get with XP.
- bjornski, on 04/26/2009, -3/+13I stopped liking them with 8.0. Hated it. Using Avast! now with good results, and not doing dumb stuff.
- computershack, on 04/26/2009, -1/+11Two of my mates have started sending SPAM through MSN IM messages. Told them they had infected computers. One found 4 things, the other 30 odd. The 30 odd is now supposedly clean but he can't get online now and for some reason, Windows installation CD doesn't find any partitions even though he can boot Windows fine. I suspect there's something still there.
As with most fools, he has no backups. Ain't life a bitch?
He asked me how I didn't get any problems. I pointed out that I use common sense coupled with paid for AV software and not free ***** which doesn't scan webpage scripts or IM messages, the most common forms of infection. At that point he admitted that Avast had flagged up a warning but his wife ignored it.....DOH! - cynic573, on 04/26/2009, -10/+20We use Windows because we don't want to be overconfident *****, we just want things to work.
- TekTrixter, on 04/26/2009, -1/+11@phenom2k7: For the same reason we refuse to adopt the metric system...
- roxgod666, on 04/26/2009, -1/+10What you said does not make sense. I'm sorry.
- Rikkochet, on 04/26/2009, -4/+13(Disclaimer: I run Vista on my desktop, Leopard on my laptop, and Ubuntu on my HTPC)
The thing you Linux zealots fail to realize is that if the pipe dream of everyone switching to Linux really happened, you'd have a ***** ton of viruses because you'd all of a sudden become worth targeting.
Open source makes software more open to improvement, but until now nobody has had a financial incentive to REALLY dig through code to find exploits they can harness.
Should that day come, you'll see that no OS is immune from exploits. If you've ever been a developer on a medium or larger-sized software project you'd know exactly why that is, too. - eco57, on 04/26/2009, -4/+13This must be why Digg.com was so screwed this morning.
- HavocXphere, on 04/26/2009, -5/+13Config files....nope haven't seen any of those lately. They must be hanging out with the windows registry keys.
- phenom2k7, on 04/26/2009, -1/+9Why do they do this, WHY!
- U83RMENSCH, on 04/26/2009, -1/+8oh yeah.. $2000+ is the way to fix this problem.. i mean.. getting it cleaned with free software and just using common sense on the internet is surly no way to go about doing your self good and saving money.. no no.. we have to go out and buy a mac to fix this issue..
*cough*freebsd*cough* - HavocXphere, on 04/26/2009, -1/+8>>I have never had a virus
How would you know...since you don't have an anti-virus installed. - repruhsent, on 04/26/2009, -0/+7Once a machine is infected with anything you can't really trust it anymore. He should just reformat/reinstall Windows and move on with his life. *****, back when I was running Windows a yearly (if not more often) reinstall was pretty much par for the course.
- rjinso, on 04/26/2009, -1/+8I'm thinking skynet or something similar.
- inactive, on 04/26/2009, -4/+11I am PC and i make sure i dont run as root. PBKAC.
- HavocXphere, on 04/26/2009, -0/+6>>I hope it does something wonderfully terrible.
Like clogging your inbox with spam? - woodrail, on 04/26/2009, -3/+9Actually, no. Except in certain rare and strange cases the hardware just works, no prob. I'm sure the same could be said of your OS.
- RSterkenburg, on 04/26/2009, -0/+6And they were ALL tracking cookies.
- VBTech, on 04/26/2009, -0/+5Only problem with 8.0+ was the introduction of the dreadful nagging, which is easily prevented. Once that's taken care of, it works just like 7.5.
- kanojo1969, on 04/26/2009, -1/+6I feel that way about all predicted mega-virii. I'd happily give up net access for a while if it was caused by total telco meltdown.
- TheFuzzyOne, on 04/26/2009, -1/+6Oh, I thought conficker was an April Fool's joke.
Fair enough. - link2009, on 04/26/2009, -1/+6You must have never used Windows in your life. Are you one of those people that just believe all the ***** they hear?
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