Windows Users.

[Lidge Farkley]

Read this and possibly follow it's directions before April 1st:
https://www.honeynet.org/node/389
Peace!

Edit after locking:
Yeah I know about the patches because I remember reading about it back in October.

I found the honeynet articles about Confiker to be interesting and wanted to share.

I didn't know the media knew anything about this until after I had made this post.  Not with surprise other people started to send me news links about it the day after, on April 1st.

[Kyrie]

This virus was patched way back in October, 2008. That is, if you downloaded the regular Microsoft updates.

If you didn't, and you got the worm, any of the major virus scanners should be able to remove it fairly easily.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

This is not nearly as terrible a worm as the media is making it out to be.