Linux is fine to use, it doesn't have the exploits that windows has that allow conficker to run.
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Conficker worm: D-day April 1st
- Thread starter Whisper
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Linux is fine to use, it doesn't have the exploits that windows has that allow conficker to run.
Mister Chief
New Member
All of our computers are clean.
Great for us. Now I'm just wondering what'll happen to the people who ARE infected.
... Unless you mean the virus doesn't do anything, and it was all just an elaborate joke.
Your stating that based on what? Does anyone know if it went live?
Mister Chief
New Member
I was talking about the computers owned by my various family members....
Sorry for the confusion.
Sorry for the confusion.
Do a triple lindy off your roof.
LocutusEstBorg
Active Member
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It worked fine in preview post, why not in the submitted post.
It worked fine in preview post, why not in the submitted post.
Cryox
Bro.
well nothing must have happened yet because yahoo or any other sites seem to have anything on it...
EDIT
Finally, found it
CNN - April Fool's Computer Worm Surfaces
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Finally, found it
CNN - April Fool's Computer Worm Surfaces
Darth Budd
Inna-Gadda-Davida
Oh noez, the internets imploded
Slasher
Suck It
Nothing was ever set to actually really go down April 1st. It was just updating itself to receive a new set of instructions on this date. The instructions could have been anything, even nothing.
Even in class this morning I heard people moaning about it with so much misinformation it was making me want to turn around and slap them in the faces. Things like "Yeah it works on macs too", "When you guys turning your computers back on?", and "I heard google.ca doesn't work if you have it", "It's crashing computers that have it now"...
There's so much bullshit flying around it's just ridiculous
Even in class this morning I heard people moaning about it with so much misinformation it was making me want to turn around and slap them in the faces. Things like "Yeah it works on macs too", "When you guys turning your computers back on?", and "I heard google.ca doesn't work if you have it", "It's crashing computers that have it now"...
There's so much bullshit flying around it's just ridiculous
Mister Chief
New Member
I suggest everyone read the wiki page for it. Like Slasher said, April 1st was just a scheduled update for the worm.
There has already been several updates to the worm where a previous version has contacted a domain to receive a new payload. April 1st just marks the first time version D will begin visiting domains for payloads.
There has already been several updates to the worm where a previous version has contacted a domain to receive a new payload. April 1st just marks the first time version D will begin visiting domains for payloads.
Pokemanz master
Lowering your IQ
Im so lost now....
So it can be launch at anytime now?
So it can be launch at anytime now?
Joey
New Member
I've always been lost, so you've got me beat.
Colm
New Member
OK, the best thing to do is wiki it. Summing up what I've learned from the wiki:
Conficker itself is just a backdoor for a payload to enter it. This was the plan from the start. Variants A, B and C were placed to propagate itself and infect computers. Variant D has changed this completely. Variant D does not propagate itself. Instead, it spreads by "updating" the other three variants, by means of a payload placed on a sequence of random domain names.
April 1st marks the first time that Conficker.D will start searching for payloads through a P2P network created by the virus. The payloads will enter the network from a sequence of domains that will infect about 1% of people carrying the virus. Variants A-C had a similar system, but with fewer domains, and therefore a higher chance to spread payloads (although the only payload that they've spread is the "update" to D) But, once they're in, they'll distribute quickly throughout the system. This is only a change in the way the virus listens for payloads. The virus could easily have spread payloads through the domain name system. The change today is very minor.
The virus will act as soon as a payload enters the system, but this could be at ANY time. Not specifically today. Or tomorrow. Or this week.
Keep updated. If you have Variant D, it kills anti-malware applications every second and variants B-D disable autoupdate. Get the patches, and if autoupdate is disabled without you disabling it, you may have the virus. Get your AV up-to-date and have a scheduled scan. Which you should be doing already.
Conficker itself is just a backdoor for a payload to enter it. This was the plan from the start. Variants A, B and C were placed to propagate itself and infect computers. Variant D has changed this completely. Variant D does not propagate itself. Instead, it spreads by "updating" the other three variants, by means of a payload placed on a sequence of random domain names.
April 1st marks the first time that Conficker.D will start searching for payloads through a P2P network created by the virus. The payloads will enter the network from a sequence of domains that will infect about 1% of people carrying the virus. Variants A-C had a similar system, but with fewer domains, and therefore a higher chance to spread payloads (although the only payload that they've spread is the "update" to D) But, once they're in, they'll distribute quickly throughout the system. This is only a change in the way the virus listens for payloads. The virus could easily have spread payloads through the domain name system. The change today is very minor.
The virus will act as soon as a payload enters the system, but this could be at ANY time. Not specifically today. Or tomorrow. Or this week.
Keep updated. If you have Variant D, it kills anti-malware applications every second and variants B-D disable autoupdate. Get the patches, and if autoupdate is disabled without you disabling it, you may have the virus. Get your AV up-to-date and have a scheduled scan. Which you should be doing already.