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Conficker - The Facts
Edvard:
So, it's April 1st...
Anything happening? (no reports in the news yet)
:tellme: :tellme:
mwb1100:
So, it's April 1st...
Anything happening? (no reports in the news yet)
:tellme: :tellme:
-Edvard (April 01, 2009, 10:21 AM)
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I heard an ABC News radio report that they put an unprotected machine on Internet, and it got probed and compromised within a few minutes. To be honest, I'm not sure how different that might be from any other day on the Internet.
I'm sure that having a NAT router between you an the 'net would go a long way toward preventing the problem (though does having UPNP enabled on the router change that? - It came enabled by default on my most recent router.)
mwb1100:
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Lashiec:
So, it's April 1st...
Anything happening? (no reports in the news yet)
-Edvard (April 01, 2009, 10:21 AM)
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Yeah, but at some point you can't tell if it's another joke or the real thing. What a date to choose to activate the worm... So far, everything seems all right, did not see any report other than Conficker becoming "self-aware".
What it bothers me is that browsing the Internet today is a major pain in the ass, because everything is loading much slower than it's normal. What's more, I've been trying to download a podcast during the last two hours, achieving some staggering download rates (2 KB per second), and the cablemodem took like 5 minutes to connect to the ISP this morning. I assume the Net is crumbling under the Conficker hammering, or perhaps it's just a particular problem with my provider.
Edvard:
I haven't experienced any noticeable delays, so it must be your ISP.
:huh:
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