April Fools Computer Virus

tell me what you have heard or think about this...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/24/conficker.computer.worm/index.html

 

I'll ditto the above. ^^^^

 

With Laura on this. Still remember the Y2K scare. Had people and conglomerates scrambling...
People actually cancelled their flights and what not. It was a crazy time. But who was to know.
Stay and surf safe..Cheers

 

What is a Virus again? :-D

Great answer LauraR and Kestrel13, quiet Malware would be great if someone is NOT affected by the virus. If there are slow responses in Malware on 04/01/09, you will have us all wondering....

 

Currently re-registering Avast on the borgs and this computer, running scans... Can't hurt! Seems I have been on the laptop for a couple of weeks with only the windows defender running. Curious if it will find anything. :-D

 

@Boom :-D As I'm new to Distros really can't say. I've googled away to glory.
With conflicting views Some believe it to be virus proof and then again..
Without saying much more it's a lot safer though.. If my googling interpretation is correct

 

I'm booting up, maybe the boogie man will get me and I'll get to buy a new machine, this one is 7 years old and my wife won't let me get a new one.

 

I hope you are correct. See if I can post after 04/02/09! rolleyes

 

I see someone is putting Avast on, another friend said to put AVG on, any preferences amongst the experts.....:-D

I just do not grok why people get joy out of destroying other people's computers... my mind just does not work that way...rolleyes

 

Because destroying your own gets expensive quick. And besides, at worst these need a reinstall of windows.

 

All mine will be on. The borg must fold. It is what they do. :-D

 

Is there any relationship between Conficker and the GhostNet reported in the NY Times today?

 

Good morning everyone - thought I would throw my 2cents in about the "confliker" worm.....I have been doing a little research along with talking to my instructor about this. Apparently a critical update that M$ put out 10/22/2008 KB958644 (MS08-067) will protect you. I checked my M$ updates and I DID NOT have that particular update so I went to M$ and downloaded it. For those of you that do not have the update here is the link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6E-9265-44B9-A376-2067B73D6A03&displaylang=en

I also made sure that all my programs were updated and current ie: AVG, Spybot etc. I hope this is helpful.

 

I am with you Fred the folding must go on
I am leaving 3 PCs on overnight but will first update all bug sprays.
http://bestsmileys.com/computer1/1.gif

 

Our Server at work was updated against this worm in December.

Seems there are plenty of UNPROTECTED systems out there though. :cry

 

Hi Bored - I was so surprised myself that I did not have the update.....I am glad I checked!! I also hope that alot of people check to make sure they are safe from this vermin....

 

I want to thank you for the link to update MS and also to let me know the best way to be prepared for this (if it comes to be). I appreciate all of you and your knowledge... this is where I first come to when I need info or help.
Thank you all so very much!

 

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx here is the link to pick what flavor of windows you have for this update. Just scroll down a bit and pick what operating system you have.

 

Well everything seems to be going OK here.
Just hope it stays that way.

 

http://bestsmileys.com/peeping/5.gif
Is it safe to come out yet?

 

Come on out ED it's no use hiding we can see you behind the sofa.

 

Just checking for the all clear Bill:-D

 

LOL, I don't think any regular here is going to get infected.

 

Looks out for augie's malware removal threadLOL

 

Meh, ye of little faith.:-D

 

Lets be careful out there.
:-D

 

Ya I just want to know what it does I am curious now Watch it just be another virus that spams ads that would be boring

 

Conficker 60 Minutes

 

Well I fired up my lap top this morning and I heard a sound that I have not heard in a long time. It was the sound of my modem trying to dial out. Also my connection is very slow. I do believe I am infected. Is there any hope to remove this without formatting?

 

First off thanks for the fast reply. TO answer your question, Yes I found that link via Kim K's web site. When I first ran those (about two months ago) it found several items and I removed those per the software. Since then I have ran a combo of them every week. Spy-bot and AVG daily and Super is live all the time. I thought I was protected.

In the last few days I have noticed bandwidth issues that my ISP provider said was not on their end. Also I use Netflix and I could not stream movies due to "Internet connection being poor". Also when I open Fire-fox or Explorer there is about a 60-120 second delay on opening. This all started about a week ago when my daughter used my lap top to download ring tones to her phone via USB from a site call Phonezoo. She turned off my firewall so that she could access the site. I have no proof this is where the problem came from but was the only time I know of that my lap top was "in the open".

 

I use Phonezoo at my house, and have never downloaded anything, Phonezoo (at least in my case) sends the ringtone as a text message, and you save the sound in the text as a ringtone. I've not played around with it too much, but are you certain that's the site she was using the USB cable with?

Phonezoo seems pretty reputable, I can't imagine any problems with a download from them.

 

april fools day joke prolly. got net admins running around doing updates and malware scans though.

 

Found this interesting about the "worm"

http://news.aol.com/article/conficker-worm-virus-april-1/402022

 

She went to her high school's home page and phonezoo. The only reason I am sure of that is due to a keylogger I have installed. This is also how I knew she turn off the firewall. It records everything via text and screenshots. Phone Zoo may very well be safe and not the cause. Oh and I assumed she used a USB cable, my bad there.

 

Wouldn't key logging software be some kind of malware? I mean, you're installing a program that logs keystrokes, and allows you to look at the logs, it would be fair to say that this program would also be capable of sending those logs to someone else, without your knowledge.

I'd say between Phonezoo, A school website, and a keylogger, the latter would be most likely responsible for any breaches in your security.

 

Reporting for duty! :major All is fine here. I updated everything yesterday, created an image on TI, even downloaded a removal tool from Symantic, just to be sure. Have only this computer, so I'd be lost should it hit. *knock wood*

 

On a side note, mavric240... Does your daughter know that she can't trust you? It sounds to me like a computer might be the least of your problems. I hate spies, you should be ashamed. In retrospect, you sort of deserve anything that happens to your computer, at least you'll still HAVE a daughter.