Comments on: Conficker worm – silent is still deadly

By: frgtn

frgtn — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:56:54 +0000

I’ve spent some time fixing a friend’s computer not long ago. When it first booted, Windows installation was inoperable. I then checked with my tools and found at least 4 different kinds of viruses. After the clean-up I called him and he just said: “Oh, viruses? I know I had some but they didn’t bother me all that much so I had left them alone.” His antivirus license was long expired.

Well that’s the ignorance of not so technical people out there. If a virus doesn’t impair user’s activities all too much, it has a high chance to be simply ignored.

By: dhuffer

dhuffer — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:32:29 +0000

interesting post :)

By: Adam Hunt

Adam Hunt — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:25:27 +0000

Of course the worse part in the general media is that they call this a “computer virus or worm” it isn’t, it is a “Windows virus or worm”.

No sign of it here on Ubuntu.