[Vision2020] April Fools

[Dave]

In case you haven't heard, there is a another variant of the April
Fool's Day (or Conflicker) Worm. 

All you fools who are still using MS Windoze are vulnerable.  Apparently
it disables MicroSucks updates (it may already have).  They recommend
manually applying the update, it can be found here.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD724AE0-E72D-4F54-9AB3-75B8EB148356&displaylang=en
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD724AE0-E72D-4F54-9AB3-75B8EB148356&displaylang=en>
 
(sorry if that word wraps - just cut&paste)

Another good anti-malware tool can be found at: 
http://www.malwarebytes.org/index.php

Other people are recommending that you not turn on your computer at all
on April First.  I don't see how this could help, I think it will just
launch the next time you turn it on.

Typically, it seems the malware folks are about two steps ahead of the
security folk who don't have as clue as to what may happen (maybe even
nothing).

IMO your best option is to simply nuke Windows off of your computer (or
at least don't use it).  I mean why use such a vulnerable and crappy OS
in the first place?   Can you give me one good reason (beside gaming)?

Start here: http://www.ubuntu.com/

Dave

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