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Conficker worm - the next Y2K?

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I think everyone has now heard of the Conficker virus that is out there. How could you miss it, it's made a lot of main-stream media. Call me crazy, but I suspect this is the next Y2K scare. The media needs to be able to scare people into listening/reading/watching them, so they've made a big deal of things. I suspect that come tomorrow... nothing is going to happen. If I'm wrong though, this post may be the first thing to go... :)

Posted by Bill Greenberg On 03/31/2009| Digg This | Permalink

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1 - I think this worm just had all the ingredients of a good media story: unknown purpose, set to "turn on" on April Fools, high infection rate. It's been a while since we've seen a good virus scare. The next y2k? Not even close, but it has definitely caused more paranoia than any worm or virus released in recent memory.

Posted by Your Friendly Neighborhood Computer Guy At 11:28:47 AM On 04/01/2009 | - Website - |