April Fool's Day Virus

[Meotwister]

i know this wouldnt work, but what stops a person from changing their clock to April 1st to see if they had the virus other than fear? Does the virus check a server somewhere for it's date to be April 1st?

If it is real, it's pretty brilliant to have it work on April Fool's Day and if not.. this is a pretty good prank.

Watch it be like a pop-up that says April Fool's You're Susceptible to Viruses!

[MayheM]

OMG I HAVE THE VIRUS AND MY COMPUTER IS ON FIRE!?

Strangely I can see your avatar screaming that...

[coder0xff]

Well, first I'd like to say that I find the article a little suspicious. Most of what they say is true. In fact, some of it is right off of the wikipedia article on the virus. However, the supposed "code" they show in the picture seems fabricated to me. Personally, I don't know any language in common use that has that syntax, even though very little of it was shown. Second, where did they get the source code? If it was decompiled - why is it commented, like where they said it contained comments about previous activation dates?

Anyway, if you're worried, it's easy to tell if your infected by earlier versions (prior to C) because automatic updates etc would be disabled. If you keep your computer up to date, you most likely don't have the vulnerability anymore. If you have a computer with Data Execution Prevention (specific to window$, in general it's called executable space protection) and it's ENABLED you were likely not vulnerable in the first place. It is designed to listen for traffic on a range of ports for instructions, which a firewall or router will prevent (unless you got it on DMZ or something ill advised).

In short - don't be a douche and make sure your computer is up to date, properly protected, and functioning correctly - automatic updates, antivirus, and system restore have not been disabled - and you'll prolly be just fine. If you're still worried, try linux, freeBSD, solaris, etc.

[MrTwoVideoCards]

This: http://www.opendns.com/solutions/homenetwork/ stops that horrible little joke of a virus.

[andacg1]

Where do you get it from?

[TicTac]

3 months ago, dipshit.

[no00dylan]

Now TicTac, hes just a dumpling, be kind

but yeah, the whole "april fools day" thing should have given it away

[TicTac]

And dumplings are made to be eaten.

Or fried, which sounds slightly less gay.