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Are_grits_groceries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 05:55 AM Original message |
How the Conficker Problem Just Got Much Worse |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 05:58 AM Response to Original message |
1. That would scare the hell out of me if I had any idea what it meant |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:06 AM Response to Original message |
2. Or it could all be an April fool's joke designed to sell more product for Norton, McAfee, and others |
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amyrose2712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:13 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I think that of most viruses like that. |
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Joe Steel (337 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:22 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Would you change your mind... |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:31 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Oh noes, we'd be without the intertubes! |
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Joe Steel (337 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:38 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Not Me |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 07:45 AM Response to Reply #14 |
24. THis reflects a level of naivete' that astounds me... |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:27 AM Response to Reply #2 |
13. Keep on believing that. |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:37 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Actually I am security concious, |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:47 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. I've got one system that the only times it shut down in 3 years |
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SmileyRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 08:11 AM Response to Reply #2 |
26. If most people had Macs and most networks were mac based |
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Joe Steel (337 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:09 AM Response to Original message |
3. If they know what it's doing... |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:15 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Welcome to DU ... |
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tkmorris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:20 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. They do know how to stop it. |
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tkmorris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:23 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. This is a pretty cool Conficker detector tool |
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Joe Steel (337 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:26 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. That's comforting |
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TorchTheWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 07:12 AM Response to Reply #10 |
20. Until the developer comes out with another varient |
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Joe Steel (337 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 07:35 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Do you have any idea how you got it? |
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TorchTheWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 08:08 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Probably from a website that was infected |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:20 AM Response to Original message |
7. Too many people have little or no security on their computers. |
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Extend a Hand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:27 AM Response to Original message |
11. test for conficker infection (conficker eyechart) |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:27 AM Response to Original message |
12. What is all this about? Future Denial of Service attacks? Against whom? By whom? |
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Joe Steel (337 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:33 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. The Chinese hold hundreds of billions of dollars of US debt |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 07:02 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Relations could significantly worsen between the US and China |
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Myrina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 09:14 AM Response to Reply #12 |
29. ... can it acess Citi's database and make it look like my mortgage is paid in full? |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 07:17 AM Response to Original message |
21. If you left your "Automatic Updates" on last October, you were protected |
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TorchTheWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 07:27 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. No you weren't |
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agentS (922 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 08:33 AM Response to Original message |
27. then I guess it's time to do some "due dilligence" |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 08:44 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Backup computers are no longer a cost issue. |
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