Comments on: Conficker Wakes Up

Internet Worm Carrying Damaging Software Is Updating, Researchers Say

[magoo2u1]

My computer is clean. The best way to prevent infection is to pray to God. If you are faithful and live by good conservative Christian values, you will never have to worry about viruses and worms again."
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Hey, are you my mother -in-law? Miriam , is that you? Praying won't solve every problem you ninny.............

[fedup12]

I am absolutely certain I am infection free.
Posted by thinkharder- at 10:40 AM : Apr 9, 2009

The article says this is a rootkit which is much more dificult for antivirus software to detect. Many ppl including myself may have this without knowing.

The way I understand root kits is they rewrite part or add to your operating system which makes them harder to detect.

Maybe someone else out there has better information than this. I know just enuf to make me dangerous lol

[bblthmpr]

My computer is clean. The best way to prevent infection is to pray to God. If you are faithful and live by good conservative Christian values, you will never have to worry about viruses and worms again.

[barbaram99]

McAfee does work. Ye have to keep it updated. I know McAfee works as I haved used it since 06. I think we all have to be careful. The poster who say McAfee don't work needs to right click the red M icon and open it and go down the list. Ye have to keep it updated. I buy it every year. i write down when I need to buy it and INSTALL it. We all have to use common sense. .

[ed_c_in_ok]

The Conficker Worm is just a foreshadowing of what is possible and one day will storm the Internet. The advances within high technology and a devious sector of sophisticated users is ripe to reek havoc, i.e. technological terrorism, on the world. I suspect there are plenty of attempts being orchestrated to seize confidential information that can be used one day for financial gain. Once the information has been acquired, the system sits idle until one day when the order is given to capitalize on the criminal possibilities facilitated through information theft. A worm which could use millions of computers in a peer to peer network could easily flood any server and shut down many websites to create distraction away from the actual perpetration of a lucrative crime. We can only hope that the conficker incident sparks interest enough within the antivirus techies to begin effectively writing code which can rapidly detect even the deepest most subtle programs that target windows based operating systems so that subsequent attacks can be more rapidly contained and thwarted.

[rhs648]

Does anyone know of freeware software that scans the windows operating system file to detect and/or replace corrupt or missing files. I don't mean registry cleaners or virus programs. Something similar to scannow. Speakung of scannow, does it work if xp service pack 3 is installed?

[antoniof123]

In addition, I have wholly abandoned internet explorer and use Firefox exclusively...much fewer security loopholes. I also run the free AVG scan every once in a while, and keep an updated Adaware from Lavasoft.de to scan with once or twice a month. I download like crazy and don't really do much to temper my web surfing habits, and contrary to what cs4466 has to say, I am absolutely certain I am infection free.
Posted by thinkharder- at 10:40 AM : Apr 9, 2009

Until more and more people start using it then it will be exploited like Mircosoft. The problem is that when you have a very large base of user it means more bang for the buck. I can explote Mircosoft becasue so many use it once firefox is used by companies as well then hold on to your hat. They said the same thing about other software.

[thinkharder-]

Like what if you don't mind sharing?
Posted by tx_doughboy at 9:34 AM : Apr 9, 2009

I use AVG from Grisoft. They try to sell you the whole security package but you can get the AV software alone for free.

I then trust the built in Microsoft firewall.

Best protection is to only go to web sites u trust and dont download or install software from questionable software. In other words common sense.
Posted by fedup12 at 10:20 AM : Apr 9, 2009

In addition, I have wholly abandoned internet explorer and use Firefox exclusively...much fewer security loopholes. I also run the free AVG scan every once in a while, and keep an updated Adaware from Lavasoft.de to scan with once or twice a month. I download like crazy and don't really do much to temper my web surfing habits, and contrary to what cs4466 has to say, I am absolutely certain I am infection free.

[apitaly]

The Conficker Eychart site is probably overloaded now. I had had wait for a few minutes and then is checked me no problems......

[searcher911]

Rhs64z you are right, those Republicans should buy Senate seats like any respectable Democrat would do.