Sci/Tech Conficker worm believed to have originated from China

[Vicboy]

Do the people that make this get excited about weird shit like this? YEAH LETS KILL THE INTERNET!!! Then realize that they just shut down like half of the websites they use?

Correction, all the gay porn sites they jack off to.

 

[sqrage]

Do the people that make this get excited about weird shit like this? YEAH LETS KILL THE INTERNET!!! Then realize that they just shut down like half of the websites they use?

They can make money off it by selling control of their botnet to spam groups or the such. The spammers can then use the botnet to send out massive amounts of spam.

 

[thewrongvine]

Could I possibly have it? My internet options keep changing so that it doesn't save information like auto-logging-in and stuff. And I've recently been getting more spam mail.

~Hai-Bye-Vine~

 

[Jimpy]

There is something just odd about a worm I hadn't heard of until recently that's going to be released on April Fool's day, that has the name "CON" in it, and "FICKER" which is a slang term for an idiot.

Strikes me as suspicious.

 

[sqrage]

There is something just odd about a worm I hadn't heard of until recently that's going to be released on April Fool's day, that has the name "CON" in it, and "FICKER" which is a slang term for an idiot.

Strikes me as suspicious.

Well it's been out for a while, it's just the latest version that's coming out tomorrow. And ficker is the German word for fucker, or at least fick is fuck. Con comes from configure. Aka Confucker. :thup: (I love legit excuses for cursing.)

>>Could I possibly have it? My internet options keep changing so that it doesn't save information like auto-logging-in and stuff. And I've recently been getting more spam mail.

From Wikipedia:
Symptoms

* Account lockout policies being reset automatically.
* Certain Microsoft Windows services such as Automatic Updates, Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), Windows Defender and Error Reporting Services disabled.
* Domain controllers responding slowly to client requests.
* Unusual amounts of traffic on local area networks.
* Websites related to antivirus software becoming inaccessible.[13]

 

[Whitesock]

I'm not turning on my laptop(I've removed the battery from it) untill i see what this does.
Also ive been telling people at school this, that the internet is going to die on april the first, I've also backed up a map ive been working on for the last year onto my mothers Ipod because I cant find anywhere else.

Well chances are that this virus won't kill our computers, but backing up your files would be recommended incase the virus becomes active and windows goes into EXTREME(no one will get out alive!)LOCKDOWN mode.

 

[Ninva]

None of the recommended updates at the bottom of the article worked for me, one of the Vista updates should have worked D: (They all said my system was incompatible, oh noez)

You're going to die!

 

[Knight7770]

Here's another link, if you're really worried:

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001636.html

It has a link to a quick and easy scanner at the bottom, which checks for conficker.

 

[Ninva]

google.com?
yahoo.com?
facebook.com?

These are infected websites? Well, I'm screwed.

 

[Dark_Phoenix]

...They're loggin' our keyz!

 

[phyrex1an]

google.com?
yahoo.com?
facebook.com?

These are infected websites?

The virus uses those servers to get the time of day. The currect date is often (always? sometimes?) included in the response header when you view a website and the virus uses that to somewhat synchronize itself.

 

[thewrongvine]

Wut eef it all big joke? April'z Fool Day. Hahar. So funniz!

Well I tried some anti-virus websites and they worked. But something's still weird on my computer...

~Hai-Bye-Vine~

 

[ElderKingpin]

i just want to point out that the viets just owned . Im not sure if their assumption is right, but im viet anyway and that makes me proud

 

[DDRtists]

April first now, lets see how many people get screwed over by this shit. If you haven't done so already, you want want to go to Windows update and get all the new updates that patch the exploit it uses.

 

[13lade619]

ooo... the internet is still here.. facinating..

 

[DDRtists]

Yeah, if you installed the Microsoft patches, you should be in good shape. Not saying you're safe, because I personally wouldn't know, but from what I've read the patches fix the exploit Conficker.C and Conficker.D use to spread.

 

[Ninva]

We're on fire in wisonsin! There is no tech savy people to save us now! Save yourselves! The internet has gone to hell!

 

[Father_Yetti]

You're going to die!

Ah ha ha ha ha. lol, cracked me up.

 

[UndeadDragon]

I haven't heard of anyone who has suffered from it yet.

 

[Jimpy]

This is seeming more and more like typical news.

Not much is going on in the world that people care about, so they blow something out of proportion to fill up the front pages.

Next week, man eats worlds largest truffle.