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**AlabamaBoyz** · 03-30-2009, 06:52 PM

I personally believe its all hype... conficker has already been thru a couple of trigger dates and it they were all a non-event. Not to say that computers don't need to be up-to-date. All machines need to be running an up-to-date OS, be it OS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris, *BSD, etc...

It is certainly that. Most modern viruses are NOT written to be directly malicious. They want to use your computer to secretly send spam or mind your computer for data. In the old days it was for pranks now it is for profit. Stealth is key. Conflicker has lost much of that.

03-30-2009, 06:52 PM	#6
AlabamaBoyz Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 622 Senior Member	I personally believe its all hype... conficker has already been thru a couple of trigger dates and it they were all a non-event. Not to say that computers don't need to be up-to-date. All machines need to be running an up-to-date OS, be it OS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris, *BSD, etc... It is certainly that. Most modern viruses are NOT written to be directly malicious. They want to use your computer to secretly send spam or mind your computer for data. In the old days it was for pranks now it is for profit. Stealth is key. Conflicker has lost much of that.
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