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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, December 05, 2008 - 11:54 am
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/obamaspeech.asp
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 2:23 pm
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...
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Monday, April 13, 2009 - 7:45 am
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!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, April 13, 2009 - 6:34 pm
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 
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Monday, April 13, 2009 - 7:13 pm
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. 
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, April 13, 2009 - 9:13 pm
ok I feel better. I should have known you got it from a reliable source or would have cked it out yourself 
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 8:58 am
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!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 6:03 pm
it sure does!! Thanks!!
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