# April 1st virus weeeeeeeeee **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 31, 2009, 7:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379 "2009-03-31T07:03:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 7:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/1 "2009-03-31T07:03:41Z")
> **[Protecting Your PC Against Conficker Worm](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protecting-your-pc-against-conficker-worm/)** > > CNET TV's Natali Del Conte Suggests Simple Steps You Can Take Other useful crap… In November of 2008, a sophisticated worm named Conficker was released to exploit the MS08-067 NetBIOS Windows vulnerability. Over the past 5 months, a botnet (software robot or zombie computer) of infected systems has grown to approx 1-2 million computers. During this same time frame, a number of variants of the worm have been released, each adding new “features” to the worm. The latest variant of the Conficker worm, dubbed Conficker.D, was released March 30, 2009. A new peer-to-peer method was introduced for command & control of the botnet and a “phone-home” mechanism is programmed to go live on April 1st, 2009. A small percentage of the 1-2 million affected hosts are infected by the latest version of Conficker (most estimates are less than 10%). While there is significant media coverage, April 1 is only a preprogrammed date when infected hosts may begin checking for updates. It does not necessarily mean there will be attacks or updates from the worm authors for download. Today, infected hosts may currently receive new instructions via the old P2P mechanisms. Removal Tool [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962007](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962007) MS Patch [http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx](http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx) ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 7:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/2 "2009-03-31T07:22:49Z")
![http://content.ytmnd.com/content/4/3/a/43a5fd3cfef37125350d2c5ae9ad9ed6.jpg](http://content.ytmnd.com/content/4/3/a/43a5fd3cfef37125350d2c5ae9ad9ed6.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 7:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/3 "2009-03-31T07:24:17Z")
:ohnoes: :tinfoilhat: ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 7:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/4 "2009-03-31T07:27:21Z")
More hype… ---
**Author:** ![tpgsr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tpgsr/32/7374_2.png) [@tpgsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tpgsr)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/5 "2009-03-31T07:28:39Z")
I wish that I was the guy on that back end of that worm just laughing and sending commands for it to do stupid shit. ---
**Author:** ![chino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bcef8e/32.png) [@chino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chino)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 7:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/6 "2009-03-31T07:30:10Z")
lol we got that when it first came out due to a WSUS fuck up… there wasn’t much published on it so we manually killed services and edited out reg keys. what a pain in the cock that was. we’re patched up like fort knox now. ---
**Author:** ![Tunerfreak](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tunerfreak/32/7427_2.png) [@Tunerfreak](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tunerfreak)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 7:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/7 "2009-03-31T07:38:54Z")
no infection here ---
**Author:** ![skylinez07](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/skylinez07/32/4993_2.png) [@skylinez07](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/skylinez07)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/8 "2009-03-31T16:11:39Z")
anything to be worried about? ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/9 "2009-03-31T16:27:09Z")
Nah They are all hyped because of the peer to peer nature of the command and control of the botnet…regardless there has been a patch for a while… ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/10 "2009-03-31T16:29:02Z")
the instructions should be to do something stupid, like make the botnet just keep opening and closing their CD drives. ---
**Author:** ![Willybeen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/willybeen/32/7351_2.png) [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/11 "2009-03-31T17:08:17Z")
Where can i get free antivirus, my moms making a big deal about this :lol: ---
**Author:** ![Karter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@Karter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Karter)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/12 "2009-03-31T17:22:56Z")
> [@Willybeen](#): > > Where can i get free antivirus, my moms making a big deal about this :lol: [download.com](http://download.com) AVG 8.5 is free. ---
**Author:** ![Willybeen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/willybeen/32/7351_2.png) [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/13 "2009-03-31T17:23:48Z")
thanks forgot about that one ---
**Author:** ![travisn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/travisn/32/5046_2.png) [@travisn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/travisn)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/14 "2009-03-31T17:55:32Z")
So my computer has been making the sound like its out of virtual memory, that beep, instead of something else normal. I scanned with my paid version of Mcaffe yesterday, but it didnt find anything. help? ---
**Author:** ![Avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/avatar/32/5076_2.png) [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/15 "2009-03-31T18:09:40Z")
I swear these things are drummed up by antivirus software developers to sell more product. “Hey everybody, there is a virus that will do ‘things’ to your computer unless you use our product.” Bah, this is exactly why I went Mac… ---
**Author:** ![Tunerfreak](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tunerfreak/32/7427_2.png) [@Tunerfreak](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tunerfreak)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/16 "2009-03-31T18:54:26Z")
> [@Avatar](#): > > Bah, this is exactly why I went Mac… :picard: ---
**Author:** ![ryanmcell](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ryanmcell/32/7510_2.png) [@ryanmcell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ryanmcell)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/17 "2009-03-31T20:40:39Z")
Be scared, very scared… lol ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 6:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/18 "2009-04-01T06:26:50Z")
Hahah a few of our customers were scared that this worm would take out their WAN with the data it would push over it their networks. They rushed to get the patches out and ended up taking out their WAN theirselves. Also, isnt this a worm since its building a botnet and exploiting a process, not a virus? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 6:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/19 "2009-04-01T06:34:26Z")
Some news channel started a rumor saying it would wipe out your HD :lol: ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379/20 "2009-04-01T06:35:19Z")
ugh, our network just crashed hard. lost my desktop, files, and outlook personal folders. somehow internet and outlook still function. rumor is some idiot over in sales opened this thing up. [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/april-1st-virus-weeeeeeeeee/65379.md?page=2)