April fools Virus.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article -1166077/April-Fools-Day-virus-cause-internet- chaos-tomorrow.html

Could tomorrow prove to be another millennium fiasco?

But on the other hand, judging by how Answerbank as been behaving this last week or so, I think it may have already infected AB.

[jake-the-peg]

Being in the AV industry, the view from the ground looks like it's not going to be a big deal.

But we've been wrong before - the industry didn't spot that the CIH virus was going to turn thousands of people's computers into expensive paperweights 8 years ago.

Better to be forewarned and forearmed.

BTW glad you think the millenium bug was a fiasco - people like me spent thousands of hours and released dozens of fixes to make sure that things didn't break.

Strange that you don't think the terrorist threat is a fiasco because the security services are constantly working behind the scenes!

Ah well - I at least I got overtime

[squarebear]

That's NOT an april fool. This is a known threat and has been since October 2008. On April 1st it uses a more advanced algorithm to spread itself and could become more widespread.

Make sure your virus protection is up to date.

[squarebear]

And like Jake, I also worked long and hard to ensure that the public wouldn't feel the problems caused by the year 2000.

It's like people travelling on a train coming up to a bridge that's collapsed. The engineers work like mad to correct it and the train sails over smoothly, leaving the passengers thinking "well, what was all the fuss about!"

[jake-the-peg]

Good advice about keeping AV up to date (yes I wound say that)

Although people don't always keep up to date with updates to their computer which plug the holes that things like this (It's called conficker) use.

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com is your friend!

They release major updates on the second tuesday of every month. Your little shield icon in your task bar should do this automatically.

And if you're a smug Mac user - We have databases full of viruses that infect macs! they just don't make the news so much

[sp1814]

The overtime I earned patching and testing our systems pre Jan 1st 2000 paid for my three week holiday in Australia.

God bless computers.

[Kromovaracun]

The overtime I earned patching and testing our systems pre Jan 1st 2000 paid for my three week holiday in Australia.

So... it... it.... no... it...

IT WAS YOU!