Protect your computer from the Conficker Internet Worm

Posted by Data Babble | 9:34 PM | virus | 1 comments »

The Conficker Internet Worm is expected to manifest itself on April 1, 2009. Be sure to run a virus scan on all your windows based computers. Here are some helpful resources for free virus scanners:

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1 comments

coffee fan // April 1, 2009 at 1:33 AM

ironically, even if someone used Conficker to steal my credit card info, there wouldn't be any credit there for them to exploit or spend

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