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Downandup/Conficker worm infects 9 million PCs
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 236617" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I looked tihs up and found the Symantec link. Here it is:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2009-010717-4209-99" target="_blank">http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2009-010717-4209-99</a></p><p></p><p>This link proves that this is not a hoax and also gives tips on how to deal with the problem.</p><p></p><p>For so many reasons, we have gone to great pains in our household to be free of Microsoft software. That way, any holes that could be exploited are not an issue for us.</p><p></p><p>Not useful info for those who havne't done this, however.</p><p></p><p>husband & I are able to read Microsoft files easily, but they get opened in something else. We can save to a Microsoft file so someone with Microsoft can read what we write.</p><p></p><p>I can't recall the last time we had a virus cause us trouble. Years, certainly.</p><p></p><p>husband gets them in the PCs at work, his own Mac laptop is the back-up and safe repository in those events. If everything ever goes down in his department, it will be a disaster. It has often gone down entirely in the easy child network, but his little laptop soldiers on and so they can still function until everything else has been repaired and is back in business.</p><p></p><p>You can get Mac viruses, but tey are rare. The chance of the Mac getting a virus at the same time as PCs get a virus - very remote. And the same virus couldn't affect both. They are just too different in operating systems.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 236617, member: 1991"] I looked tihs up and found the Symantec link. Here it is: [url]http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2009-010717-4209-99[/url] This link proves that this is not a hoax and also gives tips on how to deal with the problem. For so many reasons, we have gone to great pains in our household to be free of Microsoft software. That way, any holes that could be exploited are not an issue for us. Not useful info for those who havne't done this, however. husband & I are able to read Microsoft files easily, but they get opened in something else. We can save to a Microsoft file so someone with Microsoft can read what we write. I can't recall the last time we had a virus cause us trouble. Years, certainly. husband gets them in the PCs at work, his own Mac laptop is the back-up and safe repository in those events. If everything ever goes down in his department, it will be a disaster. It has often gone down entirely in the easy child network, but his little laptop soldiers on and so they can still function until everything else has been repaired and is back in business. You can get Mac viruses, but tey are rare. The chance of the Mac getting a virus at the same time as PCs get a virus - very remote. And the same virus couldn't affect both. They are just too different in operating systems. Marg [/QUOTE]
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