April 1st Worm for your computer
Today is April Fool's Day, the day that the Conficker virus was supposed to hit the computers of those of us who were unprotected. There was no way of knowing whether you were infected or not until today.
We were instructed last night through the television to try and go to www.microsoft.com, www.symantec.com or other sites like those. If you could get to them, then you were protected. But, if you could not get there, it has locked you out and you are infected. The thing to do then was go to microsoft.com and get the patch through another person's computer, put it on a disk, and install it on your computer. Thank goodness my laptop is safe.
For those wanting to know more about this virus, you can go to Microsoft.com and find out all the details. Hopefully you will be able to reach the site.
More help for those infected can be found at ZDNet.com.
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4 Comments:
Thank goodness I have a MAC! Apparently, the virus hasn't made much of an impact, praise the Lord!
Kathryn
Yes, you have the right machine. But anyone with an updated PC and a good virus software won't have any problems. We didn't have any. And I haven't heard of any problems so far. I think they were expecting most of it to be overseas.
Hopefully, it missed us, Barb.
Try going to microsoft.com, and if you make it there, Cathy, you are fine! There is no other way for you to know it unless it won't let you go to the virus software sites.
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