Virus at midnight

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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited March 2009
    I know my wife's bank was really worried. She'll likely get reprimanded for bringing her laptop home tonight, as they were scanning all the PCs after work.

    I understand where a bank/financial biz, gvt agency, airline or the military would be all worried because of what happened in Europe, but the local news was spouting off that it would affect all PCs.

    At least it got my to clean up and update my PC. It's running like new.

    Except the hamster wheel is squeaking now. I better feed that little ****.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited March 2009
    bring it on conflicker! :p
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited April 2009
    danger boy wrote: »
    All this hype reminds me of Y2K, when every computer was suppose to crash and everything that ran off a computer processor was suppose to die or think it as 1900.

    The Y2K hype was out of control, but it was founded in reality; a lot of people worked very hard to fix banking computers and mainframes and such to get around that bug.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited April 2009
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    The Y2K hype was out of control, but it was founded in reality; a lot of people worked very hard to fix banking computers and mainframes and such to get around that bug.

    Yea, there was such a hire on for IT pros, many made A LOT of money as pay was at a premimum. A year after Y2K, there was such a glut that many were lucky to have a job. I think that glut lead to the entrenchment of job shoppers you see in that discipline today. Work six month to a year on a project and then off looking for something else, as the company is done with you.
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited April 2009
    danger boy wrote: »
    All this hype reminds me of Y2K, when every computer was suppose to crash and everything that ran off a computer processor was suppose to die or think it as 1900.

    silly really. so much hype, not by the media this time.. but by internet wacko's. :confused:
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    The Y2K hype was out of control, but it was founded in reality; a lot of people worked very hard to fix banking computers and mainframes and such to get around that bug.

    I agree bobman.

    Yeah I don't think everything would have turned out the way it did if preparations and corrective actions weren't put into place. Would the world have halted? I don't know but there certainly could have been a cascading effect-look at te effect of today's market-everything cascades. It may have been overblown by the media in some respects but sometime things have to be before the govt or businesses will spend money on it. Look at money spending on computer security today--it used to be a nuisance and the last thing on a CEO's list, but now its near the top and usually gets quite the budget.

    Just because nothing obvious happened doesn't mean stuff didn't.I recall one actual issue where a building lost elevator service on the 1st because they forgot to update the code in the elevator controls. The elevators maintenance timers were programmed to send all elevators to the first floor and refuse to operate until maintained--Safety regulations I'd imagine, but with the date bug, it thought years had passed without maintenance and well did what it thought it needed to. Needless to say it caused quite the inconvenience. And yes that is the end of the world for some people. ;)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8lOwsMJSvk

    Y2K also forced many companies to rethink how they write code for the future as well as force companies to reevaluate and reinforce disaster recovery and business resumption plans which alone is a worthwhile result when you look at it from a business perpective.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited April 2009
    Don't assume that just because conficker didn't launch today that the threat is over. Everything I read about this one is that the people behind it are VERY good and VERY sophisticated with what they created. (Still ****...but very technically advanced ****). They could change it, delay it, morph it into something worse. Cyber threats are getting more and more difficult to find, trace and fix. Just a good reminder to keep your computers protected and updated as much as possible.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,394
    edited April 2009
    This conficker thing actually reminds me of the michael angelo virus of the 80's, when midnight hit, your pc went to the ****. Dont know if you guys remember this one but I remember it vividly cause it happened to my families computer.

    Halen
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited April 2009
    halenhoang wrote: »
    This conficker thing actually reminds me of the michael angelo virus of the 80's, when midnight hit, your pc went to the ****. Dont know if you guys remember this one but I remember it vividly cause it happened to my families computer.

    Halen

    You mean 90's ;)
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited April 2009
    shack wrote: »
    Don't assume that just because conficker didn't launch today that the threat is over. Everything I read about this one is that the people behind it are VERY good and VERY sophisticated with what they created. (Still ****...but very technically advanced ****). They could change it, delay it, morph it into something worse. Cyber threats are getting more and more difficult to find, trace and fix. Just a good reminder to keep your computers protected and updated as much as possible.

    +1
    Uh huh. Yup. absolutely.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited April 2009
    mmadden28 wrote:
    You mean 90's ;)

    I'm sure that's what he meant to say. Al didn't invent the internet until the late 80's...so it must have been after that.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited April 2009
    It may not be over according to some....

    http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090402/tc_afp/usitinternetcrimesoftwareconfickermicrosoftlead
    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,394
    edited April 2009
    Actually I did mean the 80's. The computer was a IBM 486 computer. The michael angelo virus spread through 5 1/4 size floppy disk from one pc to another.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited April 2009
    The 486 was introduced in 1989 and was around to '93 when the Pentium came out, so '80's for the 486 is stretching it.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited April 2009
    The Michelangelo virus was not discovered until 1991.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,394
    edited April 2009
    Hahahah. Now I am getting my time line messed up. I remember I was in elementary(grade) school when this happened. I was already in high school in 1991, for some reason I have always remembered it to be the michelangelo virus. Maybe I am getting this confused with something different. However, the point was the virus was also time related release.

    Now you guys got me all bothered, trying to dig back into my grade school days to pinpoint this.

    Halen
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