April Fool's Worm (READ!!!)

[Whosdaman]

Please read this fully, I am going to try to make sure everyone's PC's stay safe and unharmed for the events of tomorrow which might occur.

If you haven't seen already on the news or internet, there is a rumor going around about a virus called April Fool's Worm, A.K.A "Conflicker.C."

This worm not only erases your hard drive if your infected, but also steal your usernames and passwords and other valuable data off your hard drive.

This is an confirmed report and seems to be just a rumor, but everyone is preparing for the worse. Anti-virus's are not ready for this worm at all. They do not have the codes and do not know the source of this worm, but most are going to be on the clock all day tomorrow ready to get the codes and sites to prevent as much of the attacks as possible.

Microsoft has released that they have no idea whether or not the worm will be deadly or just a harmless pop-up that says April Fools, or even if there will be a worm. Like I said they are preparing for the worse.

They are asking for everyone to make sure all of their Microsoft Updates are up to date and to make sure your anti-virus's are up to date as well. The virus could strike at anytime after twelve o'clock midnight tonight and for twenty four hours afterward.

Microsoft says the best bet is to disconnect your PC's from the internet or just shut them down for all of April 1st.

Sources:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216402054
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/31/april.fools.computer.virus/
http://www.symantec.com/norton/theme.jsp?themeid=conficker_worm&inid=us_ghp_link_conficker_worm
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/128643

Remember: MAC's and Linux cannot be infected, so no worries here :D

Stay safe and stay protected,
Whosdaman

(Check back for more updates on what's going on and sites to stay away from. Also what anti-virus's have been updated to prevent the attack.)

[orb3000]

Thanks for the info

[Whosdaman]

Your welcome, the sad thing is, XDA is doing maintance tomorrow....I hope they kick this all the way offline because they might get wiped clean if not

[fallenmonk]

What about our ppc?are they vunerable ?I read that the virus may already be in sleep mode on peoples pc which wll spring to life ion the 1st.Can the virus be transferred via active/sync? thanks.

[Whosdaman]

What about our ppc?are they vunerable ?I read that the virus may already be in sleep mode on peoples pc which wll spring to life ion the 1st.Can the virus be transferred via active/sync? thanks.

it might be, they have no clue right now

[DaveTheTytnIIGuy]

This worm really sucks. I had to spend a good 2 hours today making sure my systems are all secure and up to date. It's good that you posted this for the forum though.

Maybe it's good that this is happening though; my friend's company, and many others, seem to be taking much more interest in patching their systems now.

@fallenmonk, I doubt it. Conficker-C will change its primary goal tomorrow, but I don't think that it will infect Pocket PCs. What I think will happen will be some kind of distributed DoS attack on a major corporation(or corporations) or on Internet backbones. I think infecting millions of PCs just so you could infect a minuscule amount of Pocket PCs would be kind of pointless.

@whosdaman, I believe that at least AVG and McAfee are now prepared to remove Conficker with and on demand scan.

And even though it could turn out to simply be something more harmless, I am (and so should you) preparing for another SQL Slammer.

Another good news link
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29956746/

Dave

[DhaMajoR]

I got it in december, my hard was wiped, I just reinstalled windows.

[galaxys]

hopefully my symantec/norton security sftw is on top of this bad bug!

[orb3000]

hopefully my symantec/norton security sftw is on top of this bad bug!

Yeah
You mate have a good protection!
I´m also well protected using kaspersky 09

A good theme for a poll isn´t it?
"What virus protection program are you using?"

Cheers,

[denco7]

This is an confirmed report and seems to be just a rumor, but everyone is preparing for the worse. Anti-virus's are not ready for this worm at all. They do not have the codes and do not know the source of this worm, but most are going to be on the clock all day tomorrow ready to get the codes and sites to prevent as much of the attacks as possible.

A virtual non-happening. I don't know what is more amusing to the hackers, to hack a worm that actually causes havoc, or to spread rumors about what is going to happen and then sitting back as the rumors proliferate and laugh at the ensuing false panic.:)

Microsoft has released that they have no idea whether or not the worm will be deadly or just a harmless pop-up that says April Fools, or even if there will be a worm. Like I said they are preparing for the worse.

They are asking for everyone to make sure all of their Microsoft Updates are up to date and to make sure your anti-virus's are up to date as well.

At least M$ and the anti virus sellers aren't playing it to the hilt to sell more software.:rolleyes:

Microsoft says the best bet is to disconnect your PC's from the internet or just shut them down for all of April 1st.
Your welcome, the sad thing is, XDA is doing maintance tomorrow....I hope they kick this all the way offline because they might get wiped clean if not

Thanks XDA for keeping things in perspective and not falling all over yourselves on this.:D

[Kuime]

Thanks for the GHOST technique.:D
Though my pc dosen't get infected by virus, I always reinstall the system with GHOST,which takes me 3 mins to rebulid:D

[Whosdaman]

It seems over 1 million PC's were infected by days end, I have AVG but have not used my PC at all today....I also have Bitdefender, Kaspersky, McAfee, and Norton...all the full versions so i'll test them out and see if they have the protection now

Bitdefender FTW!!! Rated #1 Anti-Virus and Internet Security for 2009