The Conficker Worm: April Fool’s Joke or Unthinkable Disaster?

[Palehorse]

So. . .anybody here get Confickered?

[me]

I didn't thank goodness.

[Henry Hawk]

i have been completely unconfickerated....

[mcgonser]

don't stutter when you say that Henry LOL No conflicker here either, or at least not yet.

[me]

 

[Bo D]

don't stutter when you say that Henry LOL No conflicker here either, or at least not yet.

"Yet." And that is the problem. Unless you are absolutely sure your virus definitions are up to date, and unless you are absolutely your Windows is fully patched and updated........the worm could be silently lurking on your hard drive waiting for the word from mother.

Have you checked your Windows Update History lately? Have any updates failed?

Does your antivirus software REALLY protect against this worm?

[Palehorse]

"Yet." And that is the problem. Unless you are absolutely sure your virus definitions are up to date, and unless you are absolutely your Windows is fully patched and updated........the worm could be silently lurking on your hard drive waiting for the word from mother.

Have you checked your Windows Update History lately? Have any updates failed?

Does your antivirus software REALLY protect against this worm?

I am half sure. I have a pc and a MAC! 

[mcgonser]

Bo D: I am going to call you doubting Thomas, you always interject that doubting quallity: Like most of these virus I doubt if we will know for sure until they go active. We just have to hope and pray I guess.

[Bo D]

Bo D: I am going to call you doubting Thomas, you always interject that doubting quallity: Like most of these virus I doubt if we will know for sure until they go active. We just have to hope and pray I guess.

Call me what you want. I have spent the past week managing a team of 20 techs running all over creation to make sure our clients are protected. And I have had to do much of the hands-on work myself.

As an MCSE with Security Certification, I do know more than a little about this.

But if you don't care, just ignore my attempts to help. But remember this if your computer suddenly becomes one of the bots.

[Bo D]

I am half sure. I have a pc and a MAC! 

Here goes Doubting Thomas again!!!!

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2009033108432353

Warning: "Conficker" worm may affect some Mac users

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Still "half sure?"

[Palehorse]

Here goes Doubting Thomas again!!!!

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2009033108432353

Warning: "Conficker" worm may affect some Mac users

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Still "half sure?"

Yup. . . I got protection!

[me]

Rut roo.....I might have spoken too soon.  I started to open up IE which I seldom use and neither it or Netscape are on my desktop for some reason.  I opened up windows update which opened up in IE but it didn't look right.    

[me]

Well, I ran that F-secure thing and McAfee updated and scanned earlier today and nothing was found so maybe it's just a fluke. 

[Bo D]

Analysis: Confounding Conficker—Symptoms And Solutions

"We knew it was only a matter of time—a client on the Test Center Lab's threat network became infected with W32.Downadup, aka Conficker.
We were happy about it, however, as It gave us a chance to witness firsthand the behavior of the malware on a client and to test one of the many Conficker-removal tools being offered.

It's tricky to diagnose 100 percent that a machine has been infected with Conficker, but the afflicted machine was displaying some classic symptoms of the latest variant: "

Read more here ....http://www.crn.com/security/216500248

[me]

Thanks for the update on this.