Please read: Beware of the Conflickter C VIRUS.

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• John Drake On assignmentPosts: 2,564MI6 Agent

  March 2009

  April 1st? Is this an early April Fool's joke?
• 8420 Posts: 721MI6 Agent

  March 2009

  I don't know weather to believe it
  
  http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Technology/Conficker-Internet-Worm-Set-For-Fresh-Wave-Of-Attacks-On-April-1-Say-Experts/Article/200903415250876?lpos=Technology_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_7&lid=ARTICLE_15250876_Conficker_Internet_Worm_Set_For_Fresh_Wave_Of_Attacks_On_April_1_Say_Experts
• John Drake On assignmentPosts: 2,564MI6 Agent

  March 2009

  Cheers for that link 8420. I wouldn't lose any sleep over this virus. Sky News quote an expert who says it is likely to come and go without anybody noticing. Might be worth backing up any files you need just in case.
• 8420 Posts: 721MI6 Agent

  March 2009

  I only use the internet on my computer don't use anything else. |)
• Hardyboy Posts: 5,901Chief of Staff

  April 2009

  I'm actually not too worried about this. Apparently, there was enough warning that most ISPs have been able to block it, and if you have Windows--like I do--you should be covered if you received update #KB958644. Then again, if you don't hear from me tomorrow, well. . .
  
  By the way, if you know German then you know "fick" is not exactly a polite word. I wonder if there's some significance in the name Conficker!

  Vox clamantis in deserto
• Higgins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent

  April 2009 edited April 2009

  well, there is no such word in german like "Conficker".
  
  Hardyboy, I am however impressed by your german language skills :v
  
  P.S. The word "conficker" is meant as an anagram to "Trafficconverter", the url, which blowed it out at first.

  President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
  

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• darenhat The Old PuebloPosts: 2,029Quartermasters

  April 2009

  Hardyboy wrote:

  
  By the way, if you know German then you know "fick" is not exactly a polite word. I wonder if there's some significance in the name Conficker!

  
  Oddly enough, this just recently came up in my International Marketing class as the reason why Vicks Corporation sells under the name 'Wicks' in Germany...otherwise they would be offering a whole new alternative to cold remedies
• Higgins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent

  April 2009 edited April 2009

  darenhat wrote:

  Hardyboy wrote:

  
  By the way, if you know German then you know "fick" is not exactly a polite word. I wonder if there's some significance in the name Conficker!

  
  Oddly enough, this just recently came up in my International Marketing class as the reason why Vicks Corporation sells under the name 'Wicks' in Germany...otherwise they would be offering a whole new alternative to cold remedies

  
  LOL Wicks can be used in 2 directions:
  1. to the F word or
  2. you replace the k with an h or the ck by x if you left school very early... which leads to another bad word in german.

  President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
  

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  Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!

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• Hardyboy Posts: 5,901Chief of Staff

  April 2009

  Of course, the German word for fox--fuchs--is pronounced and spelled pretty darn close to some other English word. . .and there was a lot of giggling in my German class when we conjugated the verb "fahren" and got to third person: "Er fahrt."
  
  Anyhoo, both my work and home computer checked out OK. I heard one way to tell if you have the confounded Conficker is to go to a site like Norton or another one that offers security systems--if you can't get to the site it's been blocked by the worm. I've also heard that Conficker might not in fact be activated for another two weeks, so we might not be out of the woods yet!

  Vox clamantis in deserto
• darenhat The Old PuebloPosts: 2,029Quartermasters

  April 2009

  I had heard on the radio that today was the day that the virus 'asks for it's orders' so to speak, and will continue to do so until it receives instructions. But the virus creator(s) may be laying low until the heat wears off. That being said, Conficker may be a thorn in everyone's sides for some time.