Conflicker Worm Virus

[AD720]

Originally Posted by ahc4353

What does it do?

Originally Posted by St. Lou Stu

I think it flicks con?

No one knows. That is why it is a buncha BS hype. There are dangerous virii out there every day, this one is just being associated with April fools day so the media is having a field day.

All my opinion, of course.

Like Stu said, no one really knows. But when you consider how large of a botnet it is (something like 8% of all the PCs in the world) there is some reason for concern. Really it is only going to affect far out of date systems.

Originally Posted by ChicagoWhiteSox

Was the virus going to do something today?

If I understand it correctly today was the day that it was supposedly going to start recieving messages from those that control the botnet. Again, no one really knows.

So it was just sitting in the weeds waiting for a command. Usually viruses already have commands when sent out.

[Conch Republican]

Or as someone pointed out - it might be a big April Fools Day joke...but better safe than sorry as far as I am concerned (especially with 20,000+ computers not counting servers)

Have a cigar and some popcorn - and wait and see what happens