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From BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7976099.stm

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Worm attack chaos fails to strike
The chaos predicted by some as the Conficker worm updates itself have so far failed to materialise.

There had been concerns that the worm could trigger poisoned machines to access personal files, send spam, clog networks or crash sites.

Many of the infected machines are based in Asia where there have been no reports of unusual PC behaviour.

Conficker is believed to have infected up to 15 million computers to date.

Those monitoring the progress of the worm as 1 April dawned around the globe said there was no evidence it was doing anything other than modifying itself to be harder to exterminate.

........story continues


So apparently nothing happened :thumbs:


11,692 Members x 0.82%Linux = 96 members using Linux. So who are you and hows the virus protection.

Ah, that table applies to the entire global internet usage as a whole, not merely usage on this forum.

Here are stats for the month of March for this forum:
Operating system, number of users, percentage
1.    Windows   50,295    91.35%    
2.    Macintosh   3,793    6.89%    
3.    iPhone   473    0.86%    
4.    Linux   198    0.36%    
5.    iPod   157    0.29%    
6.    Playstation 3   7    0.01%    
7.    Android   5    0.01%    
8.    Nintendo Wii   2    > 0.00%    

So we had 198 visitors (0.36% of all) using Linux :thumbs: That is pretty cool :yesnod:
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