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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. fears of you eating my asshole greatly exaggerated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fp cunts!

  2. windoze tardz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    hey u loser windoze ppl u are the only lozers effected so screw u tards for being tards.

  3. Re:If only... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wow, you're a complete idiot.

    When things become popular, A LARGE MASS OF PEOPLE WILL DO THE SAME THING REGARDLESS WHERE IT CAME FROM.

    Read the sentence in caps.

    One more time.

    You can do it.. yeah.. just once. Good.

    Email is popular, and there's a handful of common clients. People exploit them now. They always will. There's 4 or so popular browsers. Same thing.

    How can you be so flipping stupid to not understand that? Again, read the capped sentence one more time.

    You are an outlier. Good for you. You're a unique precious little snowflake. Everyone else is likely TO BE PART OF ONE OF THE POPULAR GROUPS.

    Friggin idiot.