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Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, December 05, 2008 - 11:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/obamaspeech.asp

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 2:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
This seems as good a place as any for posting about Downandup, a virus infecting 9 million PCs worldwide. Beware!

Downandup/Conficker worm infects 9 million PCs

ETA: click the screenshot in the article to see how the virus mimics Windows...

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-31-2000

Monday, April 13, 2009 - 7:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
For anyone not sure if they are infected by conficker, you can go to this website to test.

If you see all the images, you are fine, if not, you may be infected:

http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/infection_test/cfeyechart.html

Please note that conficker has morphed into a scam asking you for $50 to remove conficker from your computer. Also, it turns out that it can steal your passwords, so it's wise to be sure!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Monday, April 13, 2009 - 6:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
are we sure that site is legit? I get afraid to click on sites thinking its a trick by the very people that did the virus in first place. I am getting so leary in my old age :-)

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-31-2000

Monday, April 13, 2009 - 7:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Pamy, I heard about it on one of the morning news shows, so I'm confident it's legitimate. It was the same report that talked about how the bug is now scamming people for $50 a hit, as well as stealing passwords. :-)

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Monday, April 13, 2009 - 9:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
ok I feel better. I should have known you got it from a reliable source or would have cked it out yourself :-)

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-31-2000

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 8:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
The way the eyechart works is that it loads three graphics that are from reliable web security companies, and three graphics that are just hosted locally at that website.

The idea is that the three graphics from the security companies are hosted by those security company websites, which are *blocked* by conficker. If the graphics won't load, that means you have conficker and it's blocking access to those websites.

The other graphics are just to make sure you don't get a false positive, in other words, your computer just has some other issue with loading graphics.

Hope that helps!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 6:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
it sure does!! Thanks!!