Conficker Worm Is No Joke

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According to USA Today, a nasty computer virus known as the Conficker Worm (aka the Downadup Worm) is making it's way across the web infecting PC's with a smart and defensive tactics. Experts believe that this is a money making scheme that will invade your PC 4-1-2009. Conficker will mobilize electronically on none other than April Fools Day, but this virus is no joke.

As this troubling information makes it's way across the web, you can be sure that this is more than just hype. Several sources are reporting on this computer D-Day event. In two days, your computer may turn against you as the mother worm signals her minions into action. Still no one knows where the worms will go to get instructions. Sounds like the assimilation of technological war to me. That or the beginnings of Terminator...

That's because Conficker blocks you from reaching any web address that includes Microsoft, Symantec, McAfee, AVG, Kaspersky, Trend Micro, F-Secure, Panda, Sophos, SecureWorks or Sunbelt in the URL. It also blocks URLs that contain 103 other names and phrases that relate to security. You can see the full list by clicking to SRI International's report here and scrolling down to the table listed under "domain look up prevention."

You definitely want to check - and disinfect - before April 1. On that date all Conficker-infected PCs will begin trying to connect to 50,000 web domains to receive further instructions...~ USA Today

Supposedly, nearly 10 million personal computers have already been infected. MAC heads have no fear, the Conficker Worm does not take bites out of Apples. Check your PC before the end of this month so the creators don't make a fool out of you. Click the links above to see if you've already been bitten.

Searching for 'Conficker Worm' may also prove an infecting point, so use caution when searching this information out. Make sure that any clean up software you may try to use is authentic, too.