~~~+++Warning April Fools Day Virus+++~~~

[sirius lee handsome]

Supposedly, it ain't hitting hard in Asia (it's a full business day over there right now), which, along with Europe, accounts for 76% of the infectionsfrom this virus.

More here

[h3]Tracking Conficker: So far, it's a snoozer[/h3]

It's already April 1 in Asia, where the plurality of infected Conficker PCs are apparently located. Early reports on the Windows computer worm, which was supposed to start looking at500 Internet domains for new instructions, show that not much is happening initially.

From PCMag.com:

The "Conficker" worm is live within Australia, security vendors have confirmed, where it is April 1. At this point, however, it remains quiescent.

Security company Trend Micro has seen the Conficker or Downadup worm increase the number of DNS resolutions, as expected, said Paul Ferguson, the lead researcher for security intelligence, advanced threats research. At this point, however, the worm has taken no other action.

Conficker is expected to hit the United States on Wednesday, April 1. But it is already a day ahead across the international date line, where Conficker is waking up.


At Information Week, the story's the same:

It's April 1 in Asia and Australia at the moment, and the Conficker worm is busily expanding the list of domains from which it seeks instructions.

The results so far recall the Y2K crisis: lots of worry but not much impact.

"Conficker has activated," said Patrik Runald, chief security adviser at F-Secure, in a blog post on Tuesday. "So far nothing has actually happened."


John Markoff at the New York Times says researchers believe Conficker is trying to communicate with a central server:

Members of an informal global alliance of computer security specialists who have been attempting to eradicate a malicious software program known as Conficker said Tuesday that they were seeing early attempts by the program to communicate with a control server. The researchers said they were uncertain if the program had been successful.


There's been a lot of hysterical coverage ofConficker, and while it's smart to keep your Windows computerspatched and your antivirus software up to date, there's no real need to panic. But the hype has caused malware writers to take notice, and themakers of bogus antispyware products - which are themselves spyware - are starting to tout fake Conficker cleaners that are actually malicious programs themselves. There are alsosome poisoned search results on Google you'll want to avoid.

I'll be keeping an eye out for new developments, and will post them here as I find them. But so far, it's looking like a snoozer.

 

[e3lal]

Trying to get off computer soon as possible.

 

[da matrix 1]

hmm

 

[mastamind89]

Watch it come 2 weeks later...

 

[that wave]

Originally Posted by Mastamind89

Watch it come 2 weeks later...

April Fools

 

[tupac jordan]

LITTLE ROCK -- A white woman's computer was overtaken on March 31, 2009 specifically her facebook account & now her life is ruined.

 

[pip777]

My computer is fine.

 

[julian wright]

Originally Posted by Tupac Jordan

LITTLE ROCK -- A white woman's computer was overtaken on March 31, 2009 specifically her facebook account & now her life is ruined.

What you did there, I see

 

[rocsole]

Originally Posted by Tupac Jordan

LITTLE ROCK -- A white woman's computer was overtaken on March 31, 2009 specifically her facebook account & now her life is ruined.

lol'd.

 

[breezy v]

suck a %!!* #$@*@

 

[18key]

Man I've been running Malwarebytes and downloading firewalls and stuff to my computers like my life depends on it...

 

[ooiron manoo]

Trying to get updates and crap for this thing FTL.

Starting to believe this is a $$$ move by all these Anti Virus companies. It's been a pain in the %++. I have all my #*%% backed up already, so I hopethis thing makes my computer crash, did a scan and the virus was detected,

. I will go finance a Macbook tomorrow. #%%% PC's, this #*%% is getting ridiculous,

. Spywares hitting me up, telling me to update for $89.99.

 

[Jordan8]

Originally Posted by cartune

What if the April Fools Joke is there is no virus?

 

[that wave]

Originally Posted by ooIRON MANoo

Trying to get updates and crap for this thing FTL.

Starting to believe this is a $$$ move by all these Anti Virus companies. It's been a pain in the %++. I have all my #*%% backed up already, so I hope this thing makes my computer crash, did a scan and the virus was detected,

. I will go finance a Macbook tomorrow. #%%% PC's, this #*%% is getting ridiculous,

. Spywares hitting me up, telling me to update for $89.99.

 

[acidicality]

nothing will happen

*knock on wood*

 

[lifelessons]

Originally Posted by that WAVE

Originally Posted by ooIRON MANoo

Trying to get updates and crap for this thing FTL.

Starting to believe this is a $$$ move by all these Anti Virus companies. It's been a pain in the %++. I have all my #*%% backed up already, so I hope this thing makes my computer crash, did a scan and the virus was detected,

. I will go finance a Macbook tomorrow. #%%% PC's, this #*%% is getting ridiculous,

. Spywares hitting me up, telling me to update for $89.99.

 

[raptors29]

Originally Posted by Tupac Jordan

LITTLE ROCK -- A white woman's computer was overtaken on March 31, 2009 specifically her facebook account & now her life is ruined.

You a fool.

 

[ooiron manoo]

Originally Posted by that WAVE

Originally Posted by ooIRON MANoo

Trying to get updates and crap for this thing FTL.

Starting to believe this is a $$$ move by all these Anti Virus companies. It's been a pain in the %++. I have all my #*%% backed up already, so I hope this thing makes my computer crash, did a scan and the virus was detected,

. I will go finance a Macbook tomorrow. #%%% PC's, this #*%% is getting ridiculous,

. Spywares hitting me up, telling me to update for $89.99.

Poor execution of a gif.

 

[stringer bell 32]

how do i not catch this?

 

[dyyhard]

Originally Posted by SaNTi0321

TURN YOUR COMPUTERS OFF FOR A WEEK!!!!

nt magician can do that?

 

[rianbeing]

Originally Posted by cartune

What if the April Fools Joke is there is no virus?

ding ding ding... thats probably exactly what it is

 

[cekpethobce]

so is it activated yet?

 

[lalo1333]

mom dukes computer has not been able to do a windows update and its not allowing me to download the malicious software removal tool or use the windows live onecare scan. i downloaded the program to my computer, then emailed it from one of my accounts to another, tried to open it and got a message telling me thecurrent security settings dont allow me to download the file. i just put it on a flash drive and i am now running the removal tool on her pc. pc/windowsdefinitely FTL

 

[upstateboibeats]

Originally Posted by Julian Wright

If you want to check if your computer's been infected already, go to sites like www.microsoft.com or www.f-secure.com

The conficker virus blocks your computer from going there so if you're able to load the site, you don't have it... yet

Also turning off your computer won't help. But I'm still doing it anyways

Some conficker removal tools:

Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool:

http://mscom-dlcecn.vo.ll...indows-kb890830-v2.6.exe

F-Secure removal utility

ftp://193.110.109.53/anti-virus/tools/beta/f-downadup.zip

McAfee's removal tool

http://67.97.80.71/vil/co...ger/Stinger_Coficker.exe

This $@!! is not touching me

same here.

 

[lalo1333]

Originally Posted by Tupac Jordan

LITTLE ROCK -- A white woman's computer was overtaken on March 31, 2009 specifically her facebook account & now her life is ruined.

pure comedy