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Furry Chat => Rants and Advice => Topic started by: Wolfgang on April 01, 2009, 07:47:35 PM

Title: Beware the deadly conficker worm!
Post by: Wolfgang on April 01, 2009, 07:47:35 PM: A computer virus has been reported taking over computers around the world. Don't open up unknown eamil attachment for they may have the virse.
Title: Re: Beware the deadly conficker worm!
Post by: Renaud Magicpaw on April 01, 2009, 07:52:37 PM: also, if a window pops up saying your computer may be at risk and doesn't list an error message, it is a virus trying to download the rest of itself, it desguises it's self as part of the windows OS and gets in that way. Panda Internet Security can counteract it, but it still takes 20+ scans to remove
Title: Re: Beware the deadly conficker worm!
Post by: Blackout on April 01, 2009, 10:55:16 PM: Welcome to five years ago? Surely everyone should know about viruses on the internet by now. The presence of yet another virus is little more cause of concern than it was before.
Title: Re: Beware the deadly conficker worm!
Post by: ST-84 Sahelanthropus on April 01, 2009, 11:05:46 PM: The think the Conflicker WAS the April Fools joke.

Just a mass scare tool made up by some antivirus company, to get everyone to buy their software.
Title: Re: Beware the deadly conficker worm!
Post by: Arilys DuskFlare on April 02, 2009, 03:41:43 PM: Quote from: BetrayerOfNihil on April 01, 2009, 11:05:46 PM
The think the Conflicker WAS the April Fools joke.

Just a mass scare tool made up by some antivirus company, to get everyone to buy their software.

Anyway, it's never a bad idea to scan your computer.
{[<-is doing one now xD]}

And sometimes it could be true.... :/
Title: Re: Beware the deadly conficker worm!
Post by: Dog Donovan on April 03, 2009, 05:33:02 AM: It was totally just an April Fool's joke. An amazingly effective one if people believed it too XD
Title: Re: Beware the deadly conficker worm!
Post by: Alcareru on April 03, 2009, 05:39:57 AM: Well I think it was made by Microsoft to zap all of the unregistered versions since those wouldn't get the automatic fix for it back in august last year.... That's why i think it was Microsoft that did it.
Title: Re: Beware the deadly conficker worm!
Post by: Eurydice on April 13, 2009, 01:16:24 AM: It was kind of obvious that it was a hoax.

A supergenius with the power to make a virus that would cause digital armageddon is infact a supergenius. This isn't a comic book, this is real life. If someone's got a plan that destructive, you're not going to know about it until your computer is a zombie.
Title: Re: Beware the deadly conficker worm!
Post by: ST-84 Sahelanthropus on April 13, 2009, 01:24:27 AM: Oooh, I'm shakin' in my boots! The hackers are gonna get me! Run for the hills!
Title: Re: Beware the deadly conficker worm!
Post by: Dog Donovan on April 15, 2009, 12:17:46 PM: *shudders* I talked to a friend... It's real...
Title: Re: Beware the deadly conficker worm!
Post by: Talon on April 27, 2009, 12:36:31 PM: Quote from: Eurydice on April 13, 2009, 01:16:24 AM
It was kind of obvious that it was a hoax.

A supergenius with the power to make a virus that would cause digital armageddon is infact a supergenius. This isn't a comic book, this is real life. If someone's got a plan that destructive, you're not going to know about it until your computer is a zombie.
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