Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In

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Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 1, 2009 @02:10AM from the be-on-the-lookout dept.

Nieriko writes "Reports are trickling in about the impact from the Conficker worm, as infected systems passed zero hour at midnight and began downloading additional malicious components. Here are a couple of the more notable incidents caused by Conficker so far, according to published reports: — '... shortly after midnight local time, an ATM in the capital city of Reykjavik began spewing 100-Krona notes. ... A nuclear missile installation near Elmendorf Air force Base outside of Anchorage, Alaska briefly went on a full-scale military alert after technicians manning the bunker suspected that several of their control systems were infected with Conficker.'"

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I think its infected my car. by SuperBry · 2009-04-01 02:11 · Score: 5, Funny

All my radio stations were switched to fox news radio.
1. Re:I think its infected my car. by niskel · 2009-04-01 02:22 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  They just want to make sure you become a properly informed citizen from a reliable and unbiased source!
2. Re:I think its infected my car. by gollito · 2009-04-01 02:31 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  No more biased than any of the other stations.
  They all have agendas.
3. Re:I think its infected my car. by orthancstone · 2009-04-01 02:35 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  All may have agendas (not necessarily true), but some are more biased than others (yes, Fox News fits in that category).
4. Re:I think its infected my car. by vlm · 2009-04-01 02:41 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  All my radio stations were switched to fox news radio.
  A station that is not clearchannel still exists?
  
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5. Re:I think its infected my car. by neomunk · 2009-04-01 02:43 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  university-elitist brainwashing...
  Most people call that "learning".
6. Re:I think its infected my car. by WgT2 · 2009-04-01 02:50 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Your list is but an understatement of the depth of their leanings... at least Fox gives a conservative view - whereas the others do NOT.
  What is amazing is that the real haters of Fox don't acknowledge the bias of the others. It's completely laughable.
7. Re:I think its infected my car. by Tubal-Cain · 2009-04-01 02:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Sure. I'll be swinging by the cemetery later anyways.
8. Re:I think its infected my car. by beadfulthings · 2009-04-01 03:12 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Oh, it's a lot worse than that! My laptop keeps telling me that all my base are belong to them, but it won't tell me who they are...
  
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9. Re:I think its infected my car. by Anonymous+Psychopath · 2009-04-01 03:53 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  The degree of bias from Fox/CNN/MSNBC is subjectively scored based on how much you agree with whatever slop they're dishing out.
  In other words, if you believe MSNBC has no bias, then you will also believe that Fox has an extreme bias. The reverse is also true.
  
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10. Re:I think its infected my car. by cjb658 · 2009-04-01 04:11 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I consider myself to be a conservative. From my perspective:
  -Fox News is right leaning
  -CNN is slightly left leaning
  -MSNBC is forward-leaning (because they're getting pounded from behind by the Obama administration)
11. Re:I think its infected my car. by brkello · 2009-04-01 04:32 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  I never got the whole elitist thing. So Obama is an elitist because he went to a good school and got good grades? I'd love to be an elitist then. How was McCain not an elite with his war hero background and millions of dollars? Do we want sub-elite people running the country? I don't really think the conservatives thought this insult through very well.
  
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12. Re:I think its infected my car. by Crazy+Taco · 2009-04-01 04:35 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Most people call that "learning".
  Learning is the mental absorption and retention of information. Whether the information you learned is true or false is something else again, and I think that's the point he was making. Some universities may, in fact, be causing their students to learn false information. Brainwashing is a form of learning too.
  
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13. Re:I think its infected my car. by kbielefe · 2009-04-01 04:55 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  There are two parts to the Fox News Channel: the journalism part and the editorial part. The journalism part is actually pretty "fair and balanced," and that's the part most people refer to when they talk about media bias. Unfortunately, that part comes on while no one is watching.
  The editorial part is unabashedly conservative, but even they do a better job than the other channels in at least having someone there to provide token opposition. Their bias is very evident because they provide the contrast right there. Other channels with less obvious bias usually will at best tell you the other side's position in their own words.
  
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14. Re:I think its infected my car. by Ian+Alexander · 2009-04-01 05:34 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  at least Fox gives a conservative view - whereas the others do NOT.
  Well duh, reality has a liberal bias. ;)
15. Re:I think its infected my car. by mjhacker · 2009-04-01 05:50 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  So conservatives would be okay with a gay couple deciding to get married? Or with decriminalizing marijuana? Or legalizing liquor sales on sundays? What makes the conservatives any less "elitist" for thinking that they can make better decisions for other people? I shouldn't be barred from buying a bottle of wine on Sunday because it might upset a hyper conservative Christian. Or if I was gay, I shouldn't be barred from entering into a simple legally binding contract with another consenting adult who happened to be the same sex. I'd say it's pretty damned "elitist" to make those decisions based on dogmatic values or personal prejudices.
16. Re:I think its infected my car. by Fastolfe · 2009-04-01 08:59 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Government needs to ONLY recognize "civil union" that can be entered into by any two adult people.
  
  Why only two?
The damndest thing with these stories today by jollyreaper · 2009-04-01 02:12 · Score: 5, Insightful

It's so hard to tell which ones are too stupid to be true and so stupid they probably are true.

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1. Re:The damndest thing with these stories today by Sir_Lewk · 2009-04-01 02:20 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  From the article:
  In case you haven't guessed it yet, APRIL FOOLS!!! Seriously, if we get any real news about outages, deaths, or disruptions actually caused by Conficker today, you will read it here first.
  
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2. Re:The damndest thing with these stories today by gmuslera · 2009-04-01 04:09 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  The problem with Google announcements is that they released GMail in Apr.1st. Back in its time, gb of free mail space, working spam filter, and even the interface, then that was almost as unbelievable as the pidgeon powered search engine..
  
  What if they REALLY got the singularity, and they are officially announcing it now?
Re:Yeah, April Fools... by Anthony_Cargile · 2009-04-01 02:14 · Score: 4, Insightful

I hope so, otherwise this is Wargames meets reality. If this is a joke, I didn't laugh because I've been watching this ConFlickr worm closely ever since seeing it in action.
This just in... by Bruiser80 · 2009-04-01 02:14 · Score: 5, Funny

The true nature of the worm has been discovered. Slashdot will be simultaneously accessed by all the infected computers, making Slashdot.org succumb to its own "slashdot effect"

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1. Re:This just in... by jgtg32a · 2009-04-01 02:26 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  While 4chan dying sounds like a good thing it isn't, Conficker won't actually kill 4chan users so it will only scatter them, spreading the corruption across the internet.
Re:Yeah, April Fools... by mweather · 2009-04-01 02:15 · Score: 4, Funny

They run Windows.
Genius by MyLongNickName · 2009-04-01 02:15 · Score: 5, Insightful

Whoever set this virus up was smart to have things happen on April 1st. I never know if these reports are real or someone is making a joke.

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1. Re:Genius by u38cg · 2009-04-01 02:49 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  April 1st is a traditional day for time-based malware to go live, dating back to at least the mid nineties.
  
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Related Conficker Incident ... by xmas2003 · 2009-04-01 02:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Rick Astly passes away - rolls over in his grave.

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1. Re:Related Conficker Incident ... by dmneoblade · 2009-04-01 02:30 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  But... he said he'd never run around or desert me. The liar!
  
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Re:ATM by Kentaree · 2009-04-01 02:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Because you live outside the euro zone?
Re:Yeah, April Fools... by Em+Emalb · 2009-04-01 02:20 · Score: 5, Informative

Really? I could have sworn the ATM I saw a while back sitting in an "altered" state was running a customized version of OS2.
A while back = a couple years though, so I could see it...

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Re:Yeah, April Fools... by Critical+Facilities · 2009-04-01 02:20 · Score: 5, Funny

I've been watching this ConFlickr worm closely
Take note everyone, this is a variant of the Conficker worm, though much more nefarious. According to preliminary reports, it will harness the power of infected, "zombie" computers to flood the internet with pretty pictures of butterflies, ponies, and various other graphic files. The only sure-fire way to protect yourselves is to do a 'search' on your PC for any file with the .JPG extension and delete it.

Hurry, there is precious little time left. The end is pretty frickin' nigh.
Re:Non-story by flitty · 2009-04-01 02:25 · Score: 5, Insightful

Can slashdot PLEASE implement a "-1 Missed the April Fool's Day Joke" Moderation option?

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Re:Yeah, April Fools... by Em+Emalb · 2009-04-01 02:26 · Score: 5, Funny

Can you help me? I was able to get rid of all .jpg files on my computer but one. I tried to delete ur_mom_traffic_cone_howdidshedothat.jpg but it won't let me.
Says "Access denied: this file is in use and cannot be deleted"
The only things I have running right now are WoW, BT, OOo, Thunderbird, Outlook, Pine, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, 9 VMWare sessions, DreamWeaver and Photoshop.
HELP!

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Re:Yeah, April Fools... by h4rm0ny · 2009-04-01 02:27 · Score: 4, Interesting

I saw a crashed ATM in the UK some years ago that appeared to be running either NT or Windows 2000. Something from around that era, anyway. It was pretty disturbing to see a floating "illegal operation" dialog box on a screen I had previously assumed was some simple and secure dedicated system.

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Meanwhile, on Craigslist... by spywhere · 2009-04-01 02:29 · Score: 4, Funny

Someone actually shipped a car that was exactly as advertised, and a massage didn't have a happy ending.
Re:Yeah, April Fools... by Clipless · 2009-04-01 02:29 · Score: 5, Funny

Did you try restarting your computer 3 times? That is what the tech guys at work always tell me to do.
Re:Yeah, April Fools... by eln · 2009-04-01 02:38 · Score: 4, Funny

Can you help me? I was able to get rid of all .jpg files on my computer but one. I tried to delete ur_mom_traffic_cone_howdidshedothat.jpg but it won't let me.
Says "Access denied: this file is in use and cannot be deleted"
Just be patient, I'm almost done with it.
Re:Yeah, April Fools... by daveime · 2009-04-01 02:58 · Score: 4, Funny

You have to cycle the power on the modem too !