April Fools Conficker Worm Virus
As I had written on April first, the conficker worm was in fact a hoax. Not to say that there aren’t threats just that this specific hoopla was sparked to high.
Written by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes of ZDNet:
As it turned out, what happened on April 1st was … well, nothing.
All the hype. All the crazy predictions. All the scare stories (coming from both people talking about things they don’t know much about, and people using the trigger date as an opportunity to freak people out and sell products). It all came to nothing.
Im glad to say again that this was a hoax, but there is a need to be able to keep these things under control. What we can do to safe guard ourselves is to make sure that our OS is first most legal and updated on a regular basis, and make sure the same is of our virus protection.
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Just because it didn’t suddenly make all the computers explode doesn’t mean it’s OMGZORZORZORZ TEH HOAX APRUL FOOLZ HUR HUR. In fact, I’d wager that level of complacency is exactly what the people behind it want. It’s probably set to actually activate later.
The Conficker virus was a hoax, that doesn’t mean that there weren’t other virus’ out there that may have hit that day, the next or in the future. What was expected to happen was not an explosion it was just supposed to be a pest. For instance, one theory was that links would be set to go to one particular site and overload their website with too much traffic.
There are many things going on and coincidence is one of them, but the release on April Fools day was in fact a hoax.