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Jack Flash said:
Very skeptical you know how to monitor any effect this worm might have.
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why is that? you dont know me to make assumptions about me. i could be a master hacker myself. but your right though all i can do is make sure i stay up to date and make sure nothing is disabled on the machine. nothing more. but man its no point to be all negative though. dont you have something better to do. go get a girl or something relieve that tension stop worrying about what other grown men say.
 
That CNET article links to MS KB articles on how to tell if your machine is infected and what to do about it.
 
If your entire reason for buying a mac is that you don't have the abilities to install an anti-virus and have the self control not to download pornography & let friends put their USB drives in your computer then I fear you've got the wrong idea.
 
sdsvtdriver said:
The patch for this worm went out 6 months ago. If anyone gets hit by it, it is their own fault.
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Not at all, and one occasion where smugness is no help, this many machines could be used to launch a massive coordinated DoS attack on many websites / companies systems, you could be patched up to the wazoo or have 100% non Win systems and still be inaccessible .
 
Maybe you won't know you've been hit by Confiker because nothing will appear out of the ordinary, but it will silently record your password keystrokes and user names when you access bank accounts/credit card accounts, and just quietly relay them onto some massive illegal database for later use. I'm just glad it doesn't run on a Mac. But... it does run on most of the business computers that store our data, whether we use Windows or not. That's the problem. I'm wondering when a major class-action lawsuit against Microsoft for negligence will be filed by big business and government agencies, not to mention all the citizens who have been harmed and ripped off. That would be interesting.
 
The thing is like a virus (no pun intended), no strains always keep coming out.

Actually, that's bacteria, but you get the idea.

It communicates with "mothership" and has been consistently getting updated according to the articles, I do not know how much antivirus companies have prepared for this.

By the way, there was a 60 minutes report on sunday about this.
 
damn this is bad.
I remember this from last year and as far as we knew, or at least as far as I knew back then, this was solved as much as any other threat is solved.

I haven't read thoroughly yet, but it seems like it could happen. We have macs but some of us also have windows based computers, or our family, friends, etc. do, plus we're surrounded by windows servers and such, so if it comes to fruition then it could be a major hassle.
 
pdxflint said:
I'm wondering when a major class-action lawsuit against Microsoft for negligence will be filed by big business and government agencies, not to mention all the citizens who have been harmed and ripped off. That would be interesting.
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Its not microsoft's fault a worm has been released by a third party. That's like Ford being held responsible for a repair shop who downloaded a virus via OBD-II which rendered the car inoperable after 60 mph. This, after ford informed users to only go to authorized ford dealers for repairs and offering a patch that disables said vulnerability.
 
pdxflint said:
Maybe you won't know you've been hit by Confiker because nothing will appear out of the ordinary, but it will silently record your password keystrokes and user names when you access bank accounts/credit card accounts, and just quietly relay them onto some massive illegal database for later use.
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I fully agree with this point. BUT, there are many people that are watching this thing very closely. Lets just say that on 4/1 the worm does 'receive it's instructions from the mother ship' and start recording sensitive data, these worm watchers will know about it and come up w/ a fix.

pdxflint said:
... it does run on most of the business computers that store our data, whether we use Windows or not. That's the problem. I'm wondering when a major class-action lawsuit against Microsoft for negligence will be filed by big business and government agencies, not to mention all the citizens who have been harmed and ripped off. That would be interesting.
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Another good point.

sdsvtdriver said:
This is going to be the y2k of worms.

Watch.
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Jack Flash said:
You mean nothing at all happens?
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Most likely.
 
Y2K was a craze where people thought their computers would stop working once the year turned to 2000.


This is a virus that has people thinking their computers will stop working on April the first.

:p

As in:

Beginning on 1 April 2009, infected computers will start attempting to "call home" (i.e., contact control servers in the botnet) in order to receive Conficker updates, which has led to claims that some apocalyptic cyber-event will occur on that date and result in millions of computers being wiped out or large portions of the Internet being disabled.
 
technotica said:
Y2K was a craze where people thought their computers would stop working once the year turned to 2000.


This is a virus that has people thinking their computers will stop working on April the first.

:p

As in:

Beginning on 1 April 2009, infected computers will start attempting to "call home" (i.e., contact control servers in the botnet) in order to receive Conficker updates, which has led to claims that some apocalyptic cyber-event will occur on that date and result in millions of computers being wiped out or large portions of the Internet being disabled.
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So, what you're basically saying is that the only thing they have in common is that something might happen at a given date.
With that sort of pseudo argumentation the hype surrounding Apple's perhaps-forthcoming products on places like this is the same. I mean, it "might happen at a given date" ...
 
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