Conficker Worm

[Zen]

AV is current but I ran a complete scan this AM. That scan is still going on and it's been two hours now

I'm sure not entering any bank account info, though.

[GLC1968]

I just find the fact that no one on the news can pronounce 'McAfee' correctly, hilarious!

My husband is an account manager for them and he thinks it's cool that internet security is getting so much air time.

I have not asked his opinion on the virus itself, but I do know that he's spent a LOT of time on it for his clients in the past week (all large businesses with multiple/complicated systems...not individual users). My company has also had some real issues with it with our main systems/databases (prior to today).

[Skierchickie]

I just find the fact that no one on the news can pronounce 'McAfee' correctly, hilarious!

So, FINALLY, someone who knows the correct pronunciation! Which is??? I never know (I haven't been faced with the issue that often). I assume it's like McDonald or Mc....., Mc....., McMuffin! Mc-Aaa-fee? Probably not Mick-uh-fee. Or Mick-Ay-fee. I dunno!

[OakLeaf]

I thought McAfee software was pronounced the same way as the name usually is (MAK-ǝ-fē). Is it pronounced some other way?


OTOH, I'm still trying to get DH, who got a Mac this year for his photography after years of Windows only, to say "OS TEN."

[GLC1968]

Mack-a-fee with the emphasis on the first syllable.

The news guys have said Ma-caf-ee, Ma-caf-ery, Mac-affree, you name it...everything except the right way. And McAfee has a major develoment center in this area (the high level guys who develop the code to defeat these viruses) so it would take only a simple, local, phone call to learn the right way to say it. If I were a news reporter and was so unsure that I said it differently each and every time I said it, I'd have made that call before air-time!

[smurfalicious]

This thing has been around, and infecting systems since October of '08. So unless you're infected today is just another day. It's likely just another day for those who are. This article puts it nicely:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/200...-meltdown.html

[tctrek]

I'm just glad I have a Mac.. don't need to worry about these goofy viruses. Whoever writes these worms/viruses needs to get a life... they should go ride a bike or something!

[emily_in_nc]

This site contains some good information and a check-up of whether your PC is infected, but the simplest tip I learned is that if you can even browse to this site, you don't have Conficker, since the worm itself blocks links that have the word "Conficker" in them:

http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org...NY.RepairTools

Haven't heard of anyone who has actually been infected, thankfully!