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Fears of a Conficker Meltdown Greatly Exaggerated

Posted by kdawson on from the joke's-on-us dept.

BobB-nw writes "Many have been worrying that the Conficker worm will somehow rise up and devastate the Internet on April 1. These fears are misplaced, security experts say. April 1 is what Conficker researchers are calling a trigger date, when the worm will switch the way it looks for software updates. A 60 Minutes episode about the worm on Sunday will stoke concerns. But the worm has already had several such trigger dates, including Jan. 1, none of which had any direct impact on IT operations, according to Phil Porras, a program director with SRI International who has studied the worm. 'Technically, we will see a new capability, but it complements a capability that already exists,' Porras said."

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  1. Hackers. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Was the best movie of all time.

    1. Re:Hackers. by coniferous · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      My friends got mad at me for constantly going

      "Can't do that"

      "Doesn't work that way"

      "Coooommmeonnnnn"

    2. Re:Hackers. by sew3521 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      lol same here. I also can not watch CSI or any other show like that on TV. However I will sometimes mutter "Mess with the best, die like the rest" just to see if anyone gets just joke :)

  2. Oblig. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    April fools!

  3. mod uRp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    TRUTH, FOR ALL is EFNet, and you you join today! filed countersuit, and exciting; play parties the on my Pentium Pro developers as liitle overhead