Comments on: .UK and .CA Registries Preparing For Conficker C Worm

By: micah

micah — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:41:08 +0000

my friend’s grandmaw’s computer got hit by the Conficker worm. it is terible1 it takes everything out of your computer and it shuts your computer down perminently! luckily McAfee will protect your computer from the Conficker worm.That is what my computer has.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:33:24 +0000

If this one is a april fools prank, why would the first 4 versions not be a prank. doesnt make sense to me. definately not an april fools joke.

By: caffeine head

caffeine head — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:59:24 +0000

here’s hoping that Conficker amounts to nothing more than an April Fool’s prank

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Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:31:07 +0000

[...] Conficker C worm is expected to wreak havoc, with the BBC reporting that the new strain will randomly select 500 domain servers [...]

By: Acro

Acro — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:03:56 +0000

ESET NOD32 or any other top antivirus software will take care of this. The zombie machines the worm controls are unprotected – a bad choice in today’s open Internet.

By: Stéphane Bortzmeyer

Stéphane Bortzmeyer — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:19:23 +0000

Brandon T: it won’t work, the Conficker worm connects first to various well-known Web servers such as yahoo.com and checks the date they announce (in the HTTP headers) so you cannot trick it.

By: Brandon T

Brandon T — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:17:23 +0000

Do we know what this virus needs to trigger on 4/1/09? If the Virus is set to go off at 4/1/09 Midnight, What if Microsoft just sends a PATCH to computers to make the calendar “Skip” from MARch 31, to April 2nd, and then keep the date/time at April 2nd until the REAL april 2nd comes. My Guess is the trigger for this worm is the date/time 04/01/09 12:00:00am….so lets make the computers skip 04/01/09 12:00:00? Or is this worm so perfect that it would notice?