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Friday, March 27, 2009 12:31 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!




As of February 13, 2009, Microsoft is offering a $250,000 USD reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the criminals behind the creation and/or distribution of Conficker.
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2009/02/12/conficker-activity-up
date.aspx


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Experts Warn New "Worm" Set To Infect, Control Millions Of PCs On April 1

Conficker C can generate up to 50,000 domains, 500 of which will be contacted in random per day to receive updated copies of the worm or other malware or instructions.

www.wayodd.com/experts-warn-new-worm-set-to-infect-control-millions-of
-pcs-on-april-1/v/10370
/

System network gets unusually congested. This can be checked with network traffic chart on Windows Task Manager. Panda Security, reported that of the 2 million computers analyzed through ActiveScan, around 115,000 (6%) were infected with this malware. The potential scale of infection is large because 30 percent of Windows computers do not have the Microsoft Windows patch released in October 2008 to block this vulnerability. The U.K. Ministry of Defence reported that some of its major systems and desktops were infected. The worm has spread across administrative offices, NavyStar/N* desktops aboard various Royal Navy warships and Royal Navy submarines, and Hospitals across the city of Sheffield reported infection of over 800 computers. On February 1, 2009, Schools in the town of Rochdale, England were infected. The virus spread to 13 schools estimated to have infected 7,500 computers. On February 6, 2009, the computers used by the Houston Municipal Courts were infected with Conficker. How the virus got into the system is unknown. On March 27, 2009, the British Director of Parliamentary ICT released a (leaked) memo stating that the House of Commons computer network has been infected with the virus and called for all people who have access the network to use caution and to not connect any unauthorized equipment to the network. On 15 October 2008 Microsoft released a patch (MS08-067) to fix the vulnerability.[31] Removal tools are available from Microsoft,[32] BitDefender,[33] ESET, Symantec,[34] Sophos,[35] and Kaspersky Lab,[36] while McAfee and AVG can remove it with an on-demand scan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker



Might be a good day to get out of the house...

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Friday, March 27, 2009 12:42 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Just don't go to Wal Mart - there are mass-murderers undergoing gang initiations there!




\m/

Mike

I'm something of a ne'er-do-well
even though that's something I could never do well...




The "On Fire" Economy -
The Dow closed at 10,587.60 on January 20, 2001, the day GW Bush took office. Eight years later, it closed below 8000 on the day he left office - a net loss of 25%. That's what conservatives call an economic "success".

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Friday, March 27, 2009 12:49 PM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:
Just don't go to Wal Mart - there are mass-murderers undergoing gang initiations there!




\m/


What happens if you buy a PC at wallmart

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