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- ryanonfire, on 04/12/2009, -6/+144We already have a tax on the stupid. It's called the lottery.
- captainktainer, on 04/12/2009, -5/+135Well, this isn't good, but it could be worse. Think about it.
The Conficker worm isn't collecting user data. It's merely trying to scam people out of their money. The only people who are going to lose money on this are people who haven't taken the minimum care necessary to keep their computers from becoming a menace to society. There's no such thing as an ethical scam, but this comes the closest - think of it as a tax on the stupid and irresponsible who could have contributed to the downfall of the Internet as we know it. - NUMBER4940, on 04/12/2009, -2/+100"Your computer is infected!"
"OMG? Really? Help!"
"Click here!"
*click*
What a shame. - ShadowFoxxx, on 04/12/2009, -2/+69"but not a cyber weapon of mass destruction as many people feared."
And yet the media made it seem like the latest Y2-K event of the century.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar-l3FRUdGw - du4l1ty, on 04/12/2009, -0/+65Windows ME IS a virus.
- inactive, on 04/12/2009, -2/+63You can't win if you don't play!
- inactive, on 04/12/2009, -1/+51Only Windows ME is immune to it in the Windows Line
Grab your copy:
http://authenticmicrosoft.windowsreinstall.com/ima ... - PhillyOC, on 04/12/2009, -0/+39You can't lose either!
- inactive, on 04/12/2009, -1/+33The media are full of idiots trying to sell sensationalist stories to the common idiot.
That being said, take it all with a grain of salt. - splobk, on 04/12/2009, -0/+24What the *****. Youtube is restricting videos to the US only now?!
' This video is not available in your country. ' - StankInTheBank, on 04/12/2009, -0/+24What happened to the good old days, where a virus would format your hard drive while calling you a *****?
- omenmedia, on 04/12/2009, -0/+23The sad thing is there are many, many people out there that fit into that category. As the resident "computer guy" for our extended family, I usually get asked to fix PCs of relatives... the number of times I've found unpatched, virus-riddled, dialer-infested (well, that's not as common these days) installations is mind boggling, even more than once with the same person after I educated them about not using IE6 and not allowing any software that comes down the tube to install itself. Any dialog that would pop up and say "OMG install this app it maeks your computer really fast and grate and teh win!", he would just click OK. *shakes head*
- aceakm, on 04/12/2009, -0/+21You make not watching porn sound so easy. It's so HARD.
- colonelxc, on 04/12/2009, -1/+21A computer that is not open to the internet and never connects to it is very hard to infect. It's not surprising that you haven't been infected.
The most likely cause of infection for that computer would be a desktop computer getting infected with something and it then moving laterally in your network, if it's a flexible enough of a virus. - DavidTurnbull, on 04/12/2009, -1/+19I find it hard whilst watching porn.
Right fellas? *creepy wink* - DavidTurnbull, on 04/12/2009, -4/+22Stupid Mac fanboy.
Yours sincerely,
A Mac User - muhadeeb, on 04/12/2009, -4/+20Does this mean if I got the Conficker worm I could go Conficker Phishing? Any body know or have seen a Conficker Phish?
- xzaio, on 04/12/2009, -3/+19Why not upgrade it to SP3? It will be more secure, and it takes like 10 minutes to upgrade...
- muleskinner, on 04/12/2009, -0/+16Its sad, but I know MANY people who would do just that. Its amazing how gullible people can be when it comes to technology.
- dublea2, on 04/12/2009, -0/+15"Criminals use bogus security software to extort money. Victims are told their computers are infected, and can be fixed only by paying for a clean-up that never happens."
So, just like Antivirus2008, Antivirus2009, Antivirus2010, Antivirus360, Spyware Defender 2008, 2009, 2010, WinDefPro, and just too many more to list? Funny that its just a credit card phisher. - LoneWolf01, on 04/12/2009, -7/+22Yeah, I didn't really get why the whole thing was such a big deal. The only people that got it were those stupid enough to somehow download it. The only money the worm will make is by the stupidest of the stupid that will actually pay when something pops up on their computer.
- Cl1mh4224rd, on 04/12/2009, -0/+14http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/infection_tes ...
- VBTech, on 04/12/2009, -2/+15Conficker is just another virus. ***** like this has been around forever. Why is everyone ***** their pants? The answer is beyond me. Anything for a story, regardless if anyone knows what the hell they're on about, or not, I suppose.
- rockrapdude, on 04/12/2009, -0/+13Anyone remember the site where you can check if you have the conficker worm? It had pictures and when one of them didn't load, it showed you had the worm.
- jack2454, on 04/12/2009, -0/+12i clicked
- Frozo, on 04/12/2009, -2/+14The more people like you brag, the quicker the hackers will run to the Mac. Nobody seems to ever get that.
- offwithyourtv, on 04/12/2009, -1/+13Sometimes the lottery's not a bad thing. Georgia's state lottery system funds the HOPE Scholarship program. When I still lived in Georgia, I earned my bachelors without paying a dime of tuition because I maintained a high GPA. (But then I made up for it going to grad school in Seattle.)
For me, buying a lottery ticket would simply have been paying back a little bit of tuition. - seltaeb4, on 04/12/2009, -1/+12A ridiculously stupid thought, but a thought nonetheless.
- howcansheslap, on 04/12/2009, -2/+13people who write viruses are low life *****.
- abukalamdanny, on 04/12/2009, -1/+12Actually all the national banks and credit card companies will have servers running linux as they require as close to 100% uptime as possible; something that windows servers can't offer. EVEN if they were running windows, they'd definitely have the patch released in october and hmmm, maybe a GIGANTIC security server. It's a bank for god's sake.
- Lst01, on 04/12/2009, -0/+10Only security issues I've come across lately have been through malvertising. That's when viruses infiltrate the ad networks of legitimate sites, like mainstream news organizations. I wonder if this thing has spread through that as well.
- HerrWolf, on 04/12/2009, -1/+10Who said it is? Maybe that's why it has no updates at all.
- Shazbuckle, on 04/12/2009, -4/+13As long as you are smart with your computer it dosen't matter what OS you use
- appleofdischord, on 04/12/2009, -0/+9Statistics. If you spend $1 to have a 1 in 10 million chance to win $1 million, then you have just traded your $1 for 10 cents.
I don't know what the actual odds are, but if it were a zero sum game, there would be no reason for the state to sponsor it.
Since primarily poor people play the lottery, it has an opposite gradient from income tax. - DeskFlyer, on 04/12/2009, -2/+11Why is it connected to the internet then?
;) - elliott9, on 04/12/2009, -1/+910 minutes?!?! what am i doing wrong.
Also he probably has his XP SP1 machine behind a NAT. If he never does anything on it (open malicious files, surf to infected sites open emails) from that machine he will probably be fine.
I would update it myself but that is because I am OCD bout that stuff. - DforSpiD, on 04/12/2009, -0/+8Hey Number... I clicked on "here" and there was no link... what gives?
How can I get rid of this infection? - salculd, on 04/12/2009, -0/+8Do you take Visa?
- dazparkour, on 04/12/2009, -0/+8You can make a living on stupid people - they are the majority - anything that happens to the majority is a big deal.
- Lith25, on 04/12/2009, -1/+9I honestly don't understand why people hate on the lottery so much. What is $1 a week for a chance to win millions. You can probably find a dollars worth of change in a parking lot each week to make up for it.
I guess however that some people may be idiots and spend all their money on trying to win it. - inactive, on 04/12/2009, -0/+760 minutes is full of *****. that was a ***** infomercial for symantic. just watch it, so bogus...
- Snappysnap, on 04/12/2009, -1/+8Is it, Big Boy?
- RSterkenburg, on 04/12/2009, -0/+6The virus is most prevalent in places with the highest concentrations of stolen XP copies - Microsoft said this themselves. These people steal XP, disable updates, and are not safe against the waves of ***** that wander easily in through IE6 unless they have some kind of antivirus software.
- Cl1mh4224rd, on 04/12/2009, -0/+6WibWobble wrote:
> "If anything, they are making the computing world a better place by making people get off their asses and update software/OS's."
Err... No, actually, they aren't. Most virus infections aren't caused by outdated software or OSes; they caused by idiot users installing things they shouldn't be installing.
Even so, the only people that these infections are getting off their asses are *other* people, not the computer owners themselves. Is their computer doing something weird? They call up their nephew or their company's tech support.
I had to clean my boss' computer 3 times in one week for the same virus. Apparently he was getting these fake UPS emails with a ZIP file attached. He was opening this ZIP file, running the executable inside, and none of the anti-virus programs I used were picking up on it. Three times and he never made the connection that clicking on this executable, which did nothing, was resulting in the goofiness he was experiencing later. I had to specifically tell him not to open those emails.
Yes, half the problem is ineducable users, but I'll be damned if I ever give those ***** virus writers an ounce of credit. - Mitz, on 04/12/2009, -1/+7Here is Microsoft's Conficker page.
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/ ...
It'll check if your computer is up-to-date with the latest Windows patches.
Oh and update your anti-virus software.
If you have no anti-virus software, Good Luck out there. ;) - raycosm, on 04/12/2009, -1/+7"You want money? What kind of terrorists are you?"
"Who said we were terrorists?" - add1802, on 04/12/2009, -2/+8I'm Conficker, and I'm a PC
Easy solution: update windows
Job's solution: buy a Mac - waydee, on 04/12/2009, -0/+6There was no Y2K virus just as there's no conficker virus, it's a worm that propagates through an RPC vulnerability. It will do something, it's a botnet like many others already in existence and has been shown to communicate with an existing botnet called storm which is responsible for a large chunk of spam e-mail. It will likely be leased off in chunks to those who need its services, i.e. to send spam or harvest personal information.
The media have blown the entire thing out of proportion but for those running unpatched copies of Windows it is a very real threat and just like previous worms (think sasser, blaster etc.) it was able to spread very quickly to a large number of machines. If the estimates are correct it's the largest botnet out there now. - hadak, on 04/12/2009, -0/+6Conficker has many, many ways to replicate. It's not just about downloading a bad file - if one machine on the network gets infected, it can spread to the rest of the network.
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