Comments on: Conficker C ‘Doom’ Phizzles Into A Phony Sales Pitch http://braintubes.com/blog/?p=1245 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:18:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Conficker C ‘Doom’ Phizzles Into A Phony Sales Pitch | Real Rumors http://braintubes.com/blog/?p=1245&cpage=1#comment-3317 Conficker C ‘Doom’ Phizzles Into A Phony Sales Pitch | Real Rumors Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:28:35 +0000 http://braintubes.com/blog/?p=1245#comment-3317 [...] Conficker C ‘Doom’ Phizzles Into A Phony Sales Pitch 09.04.2009 | Posted in Computer World This sounds like an April Fools’ joke that wound up in the cornfield. According to Wired.com , Trend Micro has discovered the whole underlying purpose behind Conficker C. It’s not the Apocalypse. It’s not a hoard of locusts. It’s not horsemen. It’s… another phony anti-virus sales pitch, for only $49.95 . Ironic enough… It also may install other worms that are used to spam from your machine. One of the symptoms? A slow Windows machine.  Nothing really new there. (If I had a Link: Conficker C ‘Doom’ Phizzles Into A Phony Sales Pitch [...] [...] Conficker C ‘Doom’ Phizzles Into A Phony Sales Pitch 09.04.2009 | Posted in Computer World This sounds like an April Fools’ joke that wound up in the cornfield. According to Wired.com , Trend Micro has discovered the whole underlying purpose behind Conficker C. It’s not the Apocalypse. It’s not a hoard of locusts. It’s not horsemen. It’s… another phony anti-virus sales pitch, for only $49.95 . Ironic enough… It also may install other worms that are used to spam from your machine. One of the symptoms? A slow Windows machine.  Nothing really new there. (If I had a Link: Conficker C ‘Doom’ Phizzles Into A Phony Sales Pitch [...]

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