**PC Virus Announcement**

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – A tenacious computer worm which has wriggled its way onto machines worldwide is set to evolve on April Fool's Day, becoming harder to exterminate but not expected to wreak havoc.

A task force assembled by Microsoft has been working to stamp out the worm, referred to as Conficker or DownAdUP, and the US software colossus has placed a bounty of 250,000 dollars on the heads of those responsible for the threat.

The worm is programmed to modify itself on Wednesday to become harder to stop, according to Trend Micro threat researcher Paul Ferguson, who is part of the Conficker task force.

The worm, a self-replicating program, takes advantage of networks or computers that haven't kept up to date with security patches for Windows RPC Server Service.

It can infect machines from the Internet or by hiding on USB memory sticks carrying data from one computer to another. Once in a computer it digs deep, setting up defenses that make it hard to extract.

Malware could be triggered to steal data or turn control of infected computers over to hackers amassing "zombie" machines into "botnet" armies.

So, please update the security on your PC and update Windows.

http://www.microsoft.com/protect/default.mspx

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090329/ts_afp/usitinternetcrimesoftwareconfickermicrosoft_20090329083506

Damn those confickering April fools day worms ... every year another great catastrophe is set to befall us on April fools day .... it's the work of 'The Brotherhood of the Fraternal Sorority' I tells ya!

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It's threads like this that are killing the vs forum

Originally posted by Mekrob
It's threads like this that are killing the vs forum

Originally posted by chomperx9
if that virus hits your PC you wont be able to go on any threads.

Bdtools has a removal tool for this

http://www.bdtools.net/

The virus is probably just Quan wiggling into your computer and creating numerous pop-ups that make no sense.

Originally posted by Scoobless
Damn those confickering April fools day worms ... every year another great catastrophe is set to befall us on April fools day .... it's the work of 'The Brotherhood of the Fraternal Sorority' I tells ya!

😐

The FBI dont think its as funny as you do scoobs. Have fun in jail! I know it was you.
clapping

Originally posted by Mekrob
The virus is probably just Quan wiggling into your computer and creating numerous pop-ups that make no sense.

Originally posted by Mekrob
The virus is probably just Quan wiggling into your computer and creating numerous pop-ups that make no sense.

Originally posted by Mekrob
The virus is probably just Quan wiggling into your computer and creating numerous pop-ups that make no sense.

😆 😆 😆 😆

so....anyone's cpu warped yet?

notice any malware or lost functionality?

I scanned mine. No infection.

Yay Firefox!

i'm fine

they never said the virus would hit at midnight. check tomorrow morning when you turn on your PC

the chair of trend micro wasn't to enthused about the "conficker" worm, so in no way am i going to be ok with the situation until some time later.

i stalked up on some anti-virus tools and it may be a good idea for the rest of you too.

i have (and i think you can get them on google);

- hijack this. good for getting rid of the specific files after you can identify them.

- comboFix. a heavy duty program that sweeps your system 32 and all that fun stuff, it's quite thorough.

- vundoFix. another good tool.

- killbox. yet another good tool.

and AVG seems like it can handle current malware alright, and their anti-spyware variant software is also pretty handy.

i have stuff rady for it in case but so far im fine

that's good.

BTW, everyone who reads this post will be infected.

Avast FTW

See, there's an easy solution to this problem.

GET A MAC. 😄