There was a scare of the conficker worm on April 1st. The scare was that the worm has infected a lot of computers and is lying low. On the 1st of April, it would receive new instructions to do something. Nobody knew what it would, but it was believed to do something. The virus affects only Windows systems. Mac and Linux users are free. This is one reason why not to use Microsoft Windows (I am still using Vista).
At the time of this post, I haven’t heard of any computer affected by the conficker worm. They worm has been known to computer experts since November of 2008, because when I did a search on google for Symantec conficker virus remover, I was seeing a removal that was present since November 2008.
If you want to know if you are affected by the conficker virus, try going to www.microsoft.com, www.symantec.com or www.mcafee.com. If you cannot visit these sites, then you have a virus on your computer system. It doesn’t really have to be the conficker virus. It can be another virus.
To remove the Conficker worm, you can download and use Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). This is to remove malicious software from your pc.
For the technically savvy people, Microsoft has an article on Removing Conficker manually.
Microsoft has dedicated a page to the conficker virus at Computer worm.
Symantec has a page dedicated to the Conficker Worm.
I hope this virus was just an april fool’s joke.
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Thanks for the overview. I use Windows too…I can’t imagine how much time and money it would take me to switch. But I try to stay on top of security issues, making sure to apply patches and keep my viruses up-to-date. And I don’t use IE (except for testing my own sites) or Outlook.
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