The Conficker worm, three years and counting

Ink

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3 years? Wow. It's been a long time.
 

McLovin

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Been a long time. Still remember back then not knowing as much as I know now and not having any Antivirus. :p
 

MrXidus

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I remember ALDI external hard drives / USB's coming infected with Conficker.
 

McLovin

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MrXidus said:
I remember ALDI external hard drives / USB's coming infected with Conficker.

I remeber that too. :lolz: Was going to buy one to till I found out they had the Conficker.
 

jamescv7

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1st April of Fool's Day was become a hot trend about the Conficker scare, and it was rapidly widespread.
 

WinAndLinuxTutorials

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Never heard of this worm, WinAndLinuxTutorials is missing information. :D Doing some search... Looks like a nasty piece of malware.

Edit: http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/conficker.aspx
 

Jack

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oohh yes,Spyware Protect 2009 :p .....
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Ink

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It's the Media's fault for over-hyping Conficker, most people believed it was fake and thought nothing of it as malware.
 

3link9

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Its been three years already? Wow. I remember when this worm first came out.... cleaned about 6 friends/family PCs because of it.
 

jamescv7

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Well some other media provide information about Conficker which were fact, I remembered they gave steps on how to prevented it.
 

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