Conficker C worm Alert confirmed!

[FatherSaintPaul]

In any case, I still have Windows XP, and no, mine doesn't do forceful updates, but it can annoyingly replay those ads each time you refresh your browser.

Google is your friend. Let me rephrase, instead of forceful updates, think invisible updates that you aren't supposed to be aware of. Kinda like Comcast's invisible bandwidth limitation and Macintosh's old usage policy, they're a bunch of a crap and you won't know it 'till someone comes up to you with a statement and a piece of paper that'd ruin the rest of your day.

Rad: The new Sabayon Linux (4.0r1) has been a pain in my rear. I'm sticking with 3.4f, Fedora 10 and Mandriva 2009. As far as any other OSs go, I'm sticking with the official BlackXP and Violet Vista releases, though still trying and testing others as per usual. AND GET SOME TAN! My skin's ugly as it is. >_>

Hey, did Rockmon just promote my custom computer services?
But yeah, get a DELL and you won't have to worry about this new virus at all. >_> Buy an expensive system from them and get all the more the bloatware that'll kill it anyway.

As for games, anybody up for StarCraft? 

[Rad Lionheart]

Okay, so my day will consist of Formatting and installing Sabayon Linux, and while it's busy I find my Sega Game Gear, Repair it, maybe play it if the repairs don't butcher my dainty little fingers and thumbs.
And then find a console game to play.
Even though most of my PS2 games are just compilations of ancient games.
And I don't have a Sega Genesis anymore, or an N64, geez I need to consider getting some old consoles.

I have a DS with emulators! I'll play that!

Sounds like it'll be fun.
Sitting in my room alone.
With video games.

[Klavier Gavin]

I'll be at someone's house eating cake and getting wasted all day!

[Rad Lionheart]

Boo I want some cake!

[Rockmon]

10000z says if this virus is as bad as it sounds, then I'm guessing that the 1st is just the earliest activation date. i.e. if you have it but keep your computer off or disconnected from the internet through the 1st, then as soon as you power up/re connect to the internet, you'll be hit by it.

EDIT:

Hey, did Rockmon just promote my custom computer services?
But yeah, get a DELL and you won't have to worry about this new virus at all. >_> Buy an expensive system from them and get all the more the bloatware that'll kill it anyway.

Yeah I just promoted your custom box services. As for the shitware that comes on dells and other "name brands", revo uninstaller, a registry cleaner, and anti spyware should fix that.

[Rad Lionheart]

That would suck.

[blackbeltdude]

Thought you guys would like to check out this site:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/

Oodles of helpful.

[Rockmon]

well [parasitic bomb]. even if you dual boot, if this virus has partition editing capabilities, even linux is [tornado fang]'d.

[Rad Lionheart]

Boo more suckage.

[Rockmon]

well just do a [tornado fang]ing heavy duty [parasitic bomb] scan (anti-virus and anti-spyware) and hopefully that'll clean it out if you have it.

[Rad Lionheart]

I only have Shawsecure though.

[CephiYumi]

hmmm speaking of which, isn't in already april 1st in many places in the world? o.o

[Night]

in 75% of America yes...

[Rad Lionheart]

Really? It's only 8:00pm here.

[CephiYumi]

wait this is america only? o.o;

[Night]

maybe I have that mixed up...

how did timezones work again?

[Rockmon]

Night what are you smoking? I'm EST and it's only 2310

[Sub Tank]

I hear stories about internet worms all the time, and how everyone should panic, and then nothing ever happens.

[Night]

I'm not smoking anything! I just forgot which way the timezones went! ;;

[FatherSaintPaul]

well [parasitic bomb]. even if you dual boot, if this virus has partition editing capabilities, even linux is [tornado fang]'d.

I LOLed, but yeah, if that's the case, burn a roadstarter disc or something with the necessary tools to remake/edit bootloaders and recover data from the hard drive without mounting any data from the disc onto the drive.

hmmm speaking of which, isn't in already april 1st in many places in the world? o.o

11pm for me, time to make popcorn and order a bottle of sake!

[Jericho]

*Enters topic*

*Reads*

*Pets his DS, Wii, & newly acquired sketchpad and considers himself ready for tomorrow*

*Remembers that he doesn't have a computer now anyways*

Sometime, life eases one potiential headache with another.

[Protoman Blues]

Meh, I'm too sexcellent and popular to get a virus!

[Jericho]

Meh, I'm too sexcellent and popular to get a virus!

Still not enough however to avoid a Critical Hit.

[translation: Haven't brawled in ages and want to stay offline more than usual tonight through tomorrow... Care for some late night matches?]

[Protoman Blues]

Still not enough however to avoid a Critical Hit.

[translation: Haven't brawled in ages and want to stay offline more than usual tonight through tomorrow... Care for some late night matches?]

Sure thing, JellyMan.  You haven't had a good dosage of BFF in a while!  Lets-a-go!

[The Drunken Dishwasher]

*reads*

hmmm *has a job, but upon the realization that my brother needs the net for work and for his Xbox live, he'll just have to manage the bs-ness upon coming back home from work*

[translation: Haven't brawled in ages and want to stay offline more than usual tonight through tomorrow... Care for some late night matches?]

I can do that, as long my brother doesn't hog his 360 when I come back from work :/