Make sure you check your PC for the Conficker C worm and remove it before April 1st. If your PC is infected by the Conficker C worm, April 1st is thought to be the day it is going to go off and do unknown mischief. What this may be is anyone’s guess but the worm has the capability of running any code on infected computers. Rather than an attempt to bring down the internet, as some are predicting, the most likely explanation seems to be that its purpose is to distribute spam or other malware.
Vista machines and other Windows operating systems that have installed all their updates are thought to be safe from the worm. Not totally convinced of this myself I did a check of my machine using a tool McAfee is providing free of charge – W32/Conficker Stinger v10.0.1.537. Do not despair if your machine proves to be infected as various removal utilities are available, for example BDTools has removal tools for single PC’s and networks.
After looking for information on Conficker and being bogged down with technical detail Colin, of Free PC Security, came to my rescue with easy to understand details and instructions in his post Conficker C – D day is coming. Thanks Colin, I should remember to visit you first when looking for such information.
Hi Sue,
This could be a ‘something or nothing’ worm and over the next few hours the commands are expected to be sent out to the infected computers.
What happens next? No one really knows, but this could continue with commands sent over the next few weeks.
The majority of users will be quite safe if they have patched their OS and updated their security software. To check, users should try to visit security sites such as f-secure, avg, sophos, mcafee and so on as these will be blocked by the worm.
The ‘fingerprint’ for Conficker C has been found which will assist network administrators, the next step being new definitions released from security vendors when available.
Take care my dear friend and we will all be keeping our fingers crossed
I am hoping it is just an elaborate April Fools joke and nothing will happen at all.
I will use that tool you posted and check for it myself. I don’t want to get screwed over by this worm. Thanks a lot.
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Hi,
Good article. Sophos’ Conficker removal tool can detect and remove all variants of the worm/virus.
As long as people run these tools it should stop any serious outbreak.
James
Thanks for providing the tool and Colin’s post which has more information and removal tools. I just scanned my computer and thankfully it was not infected.
I’m pretty wary of this altogether…what kind of prank would have people warned about it in advance? Will just have to wait and see I suppose.
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There was no warning as such – the trigger date of April 1st was discovered within the worm’s coding.
All you need to do is go to Symantec’s homepage. As long as you’re able to access it you’re probably fine. If you can’t you’re screwed and I don’t think anything short of formatting the whole HDD can help you.
I think you made good try to make April Fools …
not at all going to happen..
beware of windows automatic updates
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I heard about April Fool’s virus/worms that’re crawling all over the net these few days (in fact, every year at this time!) Just couldn’t be too careful. on 1st I got a message to my cellphone asking me to d/load my April Fool Greetings from somebody, no idea how true is it, hit ‘cancel’ straight. Never trust an unknown number.
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LOL is this an april fools post?!
Luckily it turned out that this April Fools worm did not turn out to be quite the nuisance everyone feared.
Of course there is a big worm/virus every year on this day and even worse ones coming out all the time so I do not understand why everyone was so on guard. They should be everyday.
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You should consider getting Linux or Mac. There are hardly any viruses on those platforms. There are alternative for most Win software on Linux and you can actually run a lot of Win natively in Linux.
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Honestly I would disagree, just because you on a Linux or mac machine, does not make you totally safe. You can get viruses, and what not on linux, and also mac, just like on windows platform. I suppose most of the people that get viruses, are from their own faults. Example… they download it, click on it, etc.
Till then,
Jean
We don’t really know the full effect of the worm yet. Infected computers were contacted on April 1st and new instructions given to them The F-secure site says “Infected computers will continue to reach out to 500 websites daily in an attempt to update itself. And let’s not forget the P2P technology, it can update itself using that as well.”
If people had not taken precautions and the Conficker Working Group had not worked so hard to prevent infections and to stop it registering web addresses who knows how bad it could have been.
My annoying neighbor came running outside the March 31st yelling the sky was going to fall over this stupid virus. How annoying
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So was this a prank and not real? I wasn’t affected by the virus.
It was real, but it did not have the significant effect many people expected. It’s possible that the news reports encouraging people to install virus software helped mitigate the damage.
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No I never let the worm to make a rest room inside my Machine. So I have no worry about it
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Does anyone know how many people got infected by it? I don’t anyone who actually got hit by this worm so I don’t know how damaging it was.
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So just out of curiosity how does one actually get infected by this virus? If you don’t open any unknown email’s or attachments and don’t browse unsafe sites you shouldn’t even have to worry about a virus scan or things of that sort correct?
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Well this April Fool’s was boring.
Google had no joke. Also compunet failed to come through.
But there is always a peckerhead with a virus or a worm that pulls through.
Jimi P.
I am reading this post after April the first has passed and thankfully nothing happened to my PC on 1st April. I hate Conficker, because I have heard it is one of the most ruthless viruses. Am I right?
has got that fools from plurkbuddy (plurk.com) about fake database maintenance, lol
I’ve just read from PCWorld, now conficker has just been awaken by its maker to start money-making dan fake users.
I agree with Printer_Ink_Specialist steatment..
hmmm i like april mop
I did the latest update for my virus software than scanned my computer, hopefully if I had it it got rid of it
April Fool is arriving, and so are the viruses into my computer. Slowly running, my PC running on Windows Vista has been infested with pop-ups. I have been running avast! Professional Edition for about 2 years with absolutely no problems. But now, my computer is running as slow as ever. Any ideas?
Many of get screwed out from such tools and scheme so it been usual to happen.
April mop and worm, which one do you think so suck..??
Thanks for the warning, did any of this conflicker hysteria even come true?
I will check out the program you recommended. I use Malwarebytes to get rid of most of the viruses I get. Seems to work pretty decent.
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Thank God I survived it. Don’t even have an anti-virus. My PC remained safe. Anyways now I have installed an anti-virus.
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At the first of April is always a lot of letters to mail. I have letters from strangers removed. Once opened a letter from a stranger man, then had to format the HDD.
Did anyone suffer any serious problems from this? Or was this all just exaggerated?
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@Paris I don’t think anyone did as we really didn’t hear much about it, I think it was just over hyped, just like the Y2K deal, lol.
Thanks for this information. I will check your programme for safty purpose.
Thanks for the response gas card, I agree with you when you say it was just over hyped. My mom stocked up on food and supplies for he Y2K thing, glad she and the media were wrong about it.
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I try to keep watch of random virus infection with regularly running virus checking tools. You can find most for free, so it isn’t too hard to protect yourself.
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Also it is great to hear that this virus didn’t really come true for the most part ( I could be wrong ). Sounds like it all just turned out to be media hype.
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Funny how this thread is still receiving comments despite today being almost July.
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Yea I’m just glad it didn’t happen. This virus was like a web craze.
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Just make sure you have a decent virus checker and you will be fine. And you won’t have to worry about these kinds of scares.
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The Conflicker worm reminds me of the millennium bug scare. Good thing the millennium bug was not real. Good thing I did not get any virus on the first of April too
I hate April 1st. I am oftentimes afraid to step out of my house.. there are so many pranksters out there.
Yea I couldn’t agree more used tires. Just a media hype is all.
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hey good article, i just read this post…
I am glad to hear this didn’t seem to happen to many people.
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Is there any big scares that I should be worried about currently?
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Just download the latest virus checker and you should be safe from further problems.
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We didn’t have any issues with this worm!!
Thank you for the warning on Conflicker. My computers usually break down on their own without the help of viruses, but it’s good to know.
No kidding! Thanks for the warning about this, because I don’t definitely don’t need any help wearing down my PC.
Luckily this turned out to be nothing!
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Helful resource, thanks for that great share, so useful !
Was anybody you know affected by the conficker worm I haven’t really heard anything more about it?
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@ South Africa: On some machines it downloaded an adware platform and on others a fake antivirus.
With the majority of people nothing has happened, yet…
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i was confickers fool, just not on April 1st. It got me a few months later, actually :/
-Jack
from Symantec website
“The Conficker worm is no longer spreading quickly. On April 1st the worm took steps to protect itself. Since then we have seen signs that the worm may be spreading new malicious code between already infected machines.”
I like very much the writings and pictures and explanations in your adress so I look forward to see your next writings.
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Very nice and funny share.
Dude I was totally ready to hate but that new Black Eyed Peas song owns.
Lineup looks pretty decent. I mean, if you ignore Black Eyed Peas. But some of the smaller names are pretty good.
We must update and checked our pc’s regularly from conficker’s worm and other viruses even it is not April fools or whatever.
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Thanks for the advice
I have already installed a anti virus software which can track this virus!
Thanks for providing the tool and Colin’s post which has more information and removal tools
Thanks for great tips.
It is a kind of a bad joke, I think. I would get in a rage if I found a warm or a virus on my PC, even on the 1st of April.
The best joke is that joke which makes you laugh together with the people but not over them:)
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I’ve just checked my computer for the worm and it turned out it was on my PC, I’m now getting it removed. Thanks for the tip off, it really is a sick joke to spread a worm like this and cause havok on people’s files and pics!
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You can bet top researchers at all the big security firms have been working overtime to crack this. So IBM’s Yason, who is reportedly an unassuming personality, has earned some bragging rights.
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yes if happens so we can be big fools than on April 1st Fools.
Do you think this would be a good April fool prank?
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I think you made good try to make April Fools … not at all going to happen..
Dude I was totally ready to hate but that new Black Eyed Peas song owns…
Lineup looks pretty decent. I mean, if you ignore Eminem. But some of the smaller names are pretty good.
I dont like 1 april
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Thanks for providing the tool and Colin’s post which has more information and removal tools. I just scanned my computer and thankfully it was not infected.
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To my mind it’s a cruel way to joke like this:(
I’m pretty wary of this altogether…what kind of prank would have people warned about it in advance? Will just have to wait and see I suppose.