Conficker-Anyone hear about it?

[OrganisM]

Re: Conficker-Anyone hear about it?

Thank you. Thank ****ing god, somebody isn't completely retarded.

Hmm, 9,000,000 PC's? Imagine what you could cripple with a DDoS. rofl!

[Shaydow]

Re: Conficker-Anyone hear about it?

Thank you. Thank ****ing god, somebody isn't completely retarded.

Hmm, 9,000,000 PC's? Imagine what you could cripple with a DDoS. rofl!

I'm actually thinking the computing power. If you had the knowledge to understand what you where programming beforehand, and the ability to use it ( remember I said NOTHING bad has been done with Conficker, YET ), GOD, you could, well, figure out anything modern capitilaization has restiricted do to lack of capital.

Or play some REALLY uber games ( lag in FFR? F*CK THAT! )

[phe0nixblade]

Re: Conficker-Anyone hear about it?

It's me guys, I made Conficker. Turn me in and win yaself 250k. =D

[nuclearsamurai]

Re: Conficker-Anyone hear about it?

Proof or you're lying.

[coochieDREAM]

Re: Conficker-Anyone hear about it?

I am probably going for a complete system wipe-out before april fools. I was planning this before I even read this... I don't think it can get me if nothing is left of it O_o

Well, I don't know much about worms and stuff, so go ahead and flame me about how I'm dumb, but I don't think I have it (if it's real).

[bacalaoboy]

Re: Conficker-Anyone hear about it?

Good thing we just got an iMac. What now, Conficker?

[Crashfan3]

Re: Conficker-Anyone hear about it?

It's me guys, I made Conficker. Turn me in and win yaself 250k. =D

k brb

Good thing we just got an iMac. What now, Conficker?

I'm sorry but I'd rather have my precious machine turned into one of a zombie army of millions. And besides, nobody's controlling my machine if I disconnect it from the internet. :>

[OrganisM]

Re: Conficker-Anyone hear about it?

I'm actually thinking the computing power. If you had the knowledge to understand what you where programming beforehand, and the ability to use it ( remember I said NOTHING bad has been done with Conficker, YET ), GOD, you could, well, figure out anything modern capitilaization has restiricted do to lack of capital.

Or play some REALLY uber games ( lag in FFR? F*CK THAT! )

Well, the processing power will be entirely limited by connection speed between computers, and I doubt there's any proram that's scalable to work with that number of machines under those conditions for any serious utilization. The thing with a DDoS or something like that is it doesn't require the computers to simultaneously and jointly process and share similar information; each just has to process a small and very simple command sent from another machine. Sending an overflow of packets is a lot easier to do than trying to scale a program over 9,000,000 computers.

Want 1024 cores and 2tb of RAM for processing power? Easy. Check THIS out:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hp-server-web,1943.html

Buy this and you've got over 1000 cores. It's most certainly affordable for a lot of people who are serious about this stuff. If I had any practical application for it, I'd buy one.

[d4u7211]

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And besides, nobody's controlling my machine if I disconnect it from the internet. :>

Kinda my thought on this as well. To be safe, just make sure your pc is:

1. Free of viruses before and during April 1st
2. All security software is updated
3. Don't use internet that day (if you do, make sure you know your antivirus is running and you are travelling to sites you know are completely safe and maybe even stay away from any sites with ADS.)

I'll just go offline that day. One day won't hurt.

[OrganisM]

Re: Conficker-Anyone hear about it?

Fear should totally motivate you.

[who_cares973]

Re: Conficker-Anyone hear about it?

fear makes the world go round

[Crashfan3]

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fear makes the world go round

amen to that buddy

I'll just go offline that day. One day won't hurt.

I've already decided I'm gonna stay on the internet, I can hardly survive more than a couple of hours without it, lol. Just stay off of fishy-looking sites that you don't usually go to, don't download any pr0nz, etc...
I'll just idle on Rizon's IRC and post on a few forums, the usual...

[fido123]

Re: Conficker-Anyone hear about it?

It's not that hard to avoid viruses unless they're put on your machine via USB. Just don't download any files you don't trust, defiantly binary files (.exe or for whatever OS you're using). Use a script blocker on your browser such as NoScript for FireFox, and just don't enable any scripts you don't have to. This isn't as much of a big deal as you guys are making it. I'm saying this now...if you reformat, you're retarded. Also enjoy your iMac, they suck balls and are still prone to viruses.

[OrganisM]

Re: Conficker-Anyone hear about it?

defiantly binary files!! YEAHH

[TC_Halogen]

Re: Conficker-Anyone hear about it?

Oh, I was gonna make a thread about this, but I see that it has been made before.

I heard about it around the same time this thread was made, some time around the 27th. Didn't really think much about it, but the more and more that it keeps being talked about, the more and more it has me thinking.

Either way, I backed up all of my important stuff, and I have my Windows XP CD handy, because while I should avoid the internet--I'm an overachiever at school and I don't do my reports last minute. With that being said, I'm trying to finish off my senior research paper because it's due this Friday.

I'll be ready though. A full scan through Kaspersky AV and careful site usage should do me well.