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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Getback on March 29, 2009, 02:59:42 PM

Title: Confictor Worm
Post by: Getback on March 29, 2009, 02:59:42 PM

Anyone heard of this? It's suppose to attack on April 1. Now I know that's April Fools day but an article in the local newspaper said It's legitimate.

Title: Re: Confictor Worm
Post by: stran on March 29, 2009, 03:55:12 PM

googled and only got 2 results. one website was the AH2 forums.

Title: Re: Confictor Worm
Post by: Auger on March 29, 2009, 04:23:45 PM

I've been following this one rather closely (it's my job).  It's not supposed to attack, but it is changing its behavior on April 1.  The way it does its domain lookups changes, as well as a few other things.  Oh, it's "Conficker".

Title: Re: Confictor Worm
Post by: Hawk55 on March 30, 2009, 09:59:23 AM

They did a nice piece covering it last night on 60 Minutes.  Go to the CBS site and watch a replay of it...here's the link to the vid:  http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4901282n
Here's another write-up covering it:  http://billpstudios.blogspot.com/2009/03/conficker-judgement-day-on-april-1st.html

Title: Re: Confictor Worm
Post by: BaldEagl on March 30, 2009, 12:19:09 PM

You'll just have to avoid the porn sites that day.   :aok

Title: Re: Confictor Worm
Post by: Tigger29 on March 30, 2009, 10:06:33 PM

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/conficker.asp

Title: Re: Confictor Worm
Post by: trax1 on March 30, 2009, 10:17:58 PM

Damn, wish I knew who made it, $250,000 reward from Microsoft for it.