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To hear some media outlets talk on Tuesday, one would have thought that the Apocalypse was closing on the world like Jaws on an innocent swimmer. Havoc, mayhem, hemorrhoids, male pattern baldness — just about everything imaginable was supposed to break loose yesterday as the Conficker worm came crawling out of its hole. Why, then, [...]
The Windows operating system has always been insecure — and I don’t mean as in self-esteem!
The Conficker/Downup/Downadup/Kido computer worm that first surfaced in October 2008 and is believed to activate today (April 1, 2009) only targets the Microsoft Windows operating system. You heard that right, it only affects Windows – not MacOS or Linux. Unfortunately, [...]
