Nihil Obstat Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 I'm going to stay up until 12 just to see if I get some fatal crash... I'm slightly worried, but then again... it's only a computer. The only cool thing we've got is about 9GB of music, and it's not like I can't get it back. It's all stuff we have on CD, so in the end, just hours of work to get it back on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle_eye222001 Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 It's simple to see if you have it. Just see if your computer will update stuff. If it can, your fine. If not, then you have issues. Hardly rocket science to diagnose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 [quote name='eagle_eye222001' post='1821647' date='Apr 1 2009, 12:25 AM']It's simple to see if you have it. Just see if your computer will update stuff. If it can, your fine. If not, then you have issues. Hardly rocket science to diagnose.[/quote] Thanks for letting me know. I haven't actually been listening to any news stuff about it. Can't bring myself to care about anything computer related, unless it's laptops coming down in price. I hate computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philothea Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 [quote name='Sacred Music Man' post='1821632' date='Apr 1 2009, 01:08 AM'][quote name='Slappo' post='1821526' date='Mar 31 2009, 11:23 PM'] Nice ... I bought a mac... no viruses hardly ever lol.[/quote] lawl. You mean not many written for it yet... everything has its weakness. [/quote] True in a way, but OS X, which Macintoshes use, is a kind of UNIX and inherently a lot more secure than Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle_eye222001 Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 No problem. I heard from a news story that the worm will try to stop your computer from updating. So it will turn off automatic updating and if you try to manually update, it will prevent you from doing so. So as long as your computer can check for updates okay, you should be clear. If you have it, I don't know what your supposed to do. I kinda doubt changing the computer's date will do anything as everything I have heard about this worm is that this is something to really be worried about. If it could be averted by having your computer skipping a day, I think we would have heard it by now. Computers rock!................................when they work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 [quote name='eagle_eye222001' post='1821651' date='Apr 1 2009, 12:32 AM']Computers rock!................................when they work [/quote] I view them as a really finnicky high maintenance tool. I happen to use it a lot, but it's a love hate relationship... with lots of hate. I'm not motivated enough to learn anything beyond the painfully obvious self explanatory bits. Often even that gives me trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philothea Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 [quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1821652' date='Apr 1 2009, 01:37 AM']I view them as a really finnicky high maintenance tool. I happen to use it a lot, but it's a love hate relationship... with lots of hate. I'm not motivated enough to learn anything beyond the painfully obvious self explanatory bits. Often even that gives me trouble.[/quote] You sound like you should be a Mac user. (Seriously. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 [quote name='philothea' post='1821655' date='Apr 1 2009, 12:39 AM']You sound like you should be a Mac user. (Seriously. )[/quote] I would buy a MacBook. They seem like good little things. Only trouble is it's out of my price range for my uses. I'm looking at no more than $850, can't get a MacBook for less than $1100-1300. I pretend to be a hardcore PC, because of all the ads making it sound like it's hip, but honestly, I don't even care. Why do I sound like a Mac user? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle_eye222001 Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 [quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1821652' date='Apr 1 2009, 01:37 AM']I view them as a really finnicky high maintenance tool. I happen to use it a lot, but it's a love hate relationship... with lots of hate. I'm not motivated enough to learn anything beyond the painfully obvious self explanatory bits. Often even that gives me trouble.[/quote] See I like learning the intricacies of them. Although I have a friend who puts me to shame Below is an article on the virus/worm thing. [url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/28/AR2009032803871.html?nav=igoogle"]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...tml?nav=igoogle[/url] ----------- [i]Q: How can I tell if my computer has been hit by Conficker? How would I remove it? AThis virus (sometimes called Downadup) has been infecting Windows computers for the past several months. It's an exceptionally persistent, aggressive threat. It can spread over shared flash-memory drives, and the most recent variant even blocks access to Web sites of security-software vendors. (If you can't reach [url="http://microsoft.com"]http://microsoft.com[/url], your PC is in trouble.) On April 1, copies of Conficker may download extra-malicious code -- to do what remains unclear -- so you'd better make sure your PC is clean before then. The Internet Storm Center, a project of the Bethesda-based SANS Institute, maintains a list of links to Conficker-removal tools from numerous security-software developers (http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid =5860). Since Conficker can stop you from getting to that page and those links, you may need to borrow an uninfected machine to download a removal tool. Some vendors also have set up alternate Web addresses that Conficker doesn't know about; for instance, try [url="http://fsecure.com"]http://fsecure.com[/url] or [url="http://bdtools.net"]http://bdtools.net[/url] for free Conficker fixes from F-Secure and BitDefender. ad_icon Of course, if you've set Windows to install Microsoft security patches automatically and have kept your anti-virus utility current, you should be safe. So if you haven't been downloading those updates, now would be a swell time to start. [/i] ------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philothea Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 [quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1821656' date='Apr 1 2009, 01:43 AM']I would buy a MacBook. They seem like good little things. Only trouble is it's out of my price range for my uses. I'm looking at no more than $850, can't get a MacBook for less than $1100-1300. I pretend to be a hardcore PC, because of all the ads making it sound like it's hip, but honestly, I don't even care. Why do I sound like a Mac user?[/quote] Macs are meant to work without a lot of knowledge or messing around. (Which means that they're kind of frustrating if you LIKE fiddling with the inner workings...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 [quote name='philothea' post='1821659' date='Apr 1 2009, 12:50 AM'] Macs are meant to work without a lot of knowledge or messing around. (Which means that they're kind of frustrating if you LIKE fiddling with the inner workings...)[/quote] That would be love at first sight if they weren't so darned trendy. I'm a bit hopelessly countercultural/contrarian. Those ads with the Mac versus PC are literally making me not want to ever go Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 It's well past 12 now. To be honest, I was kinda hoping for something spectacular. Now I go to bed. After I get my 3150 posts, because I'm so close now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle_eye222001 Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 [quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1821672' date='Apr 1 2009, 02:08 AM']It's well past 12 now. To be honest, I was kinda hoping for something spectacular. Now I go to bed. After I get my 3150 posts, because I'm so close now.[/quote] May not happen for a bit. All they determined that today is when the worm looks for new instructions or something like that. I don't think it's necessarily limited to today only. I could be wrong though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 [quote name='eagle_eye222001' post='1821679' date='Apr 1 2009, 01:13 AM']May not happen for a bit. All they determined that today is when the worm looks for new instructions or something like that. I don't think it's necessarily limited to today only. I could be wrong though.[/quote] Still potential for some fireworks then. Out of curiosity, could the work blow up my computer? Now that would be fun. (Don't answer that. I'm not serious.) [url="http://xkcd.com/350/"]Viruses.[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icelandic_iceskater Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 my bro's work computer may have gotten this. apparently if y[size=2]ou[/size] c[size=2]a[/size]n't g[size=2]o[/size] t[size=2]o[/size] microsoft.com, y[size=2]o[/size]u have this. they couldn't [size=2]g[/size]o t[size=2]o[/size] microsoft.com. or turn i[size=2]t [/size]o[size=2]n[/size] i[size=2]n[/size] safe mode, or any o[size=2]f[/size] t[size=2]ha[/size]t ot[size=2]h[/size]er st[size=2]u[/size]ff t[size=2]ha[/size]t's not supposed t[size=2]o[/size] work if y[size=2]o[/size]u have i[size=2]t[/size]. P.S. I h[size=2]ate filt[/size]ers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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