Topic: Help on getting your computer secure before April 1st!

[BigMike]

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

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

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 That is pretty cool

[BigMike [OP]]

Thought I would share some browser stats from March

browser, number of users, percentage
1.    Internet Explorer   34,252    62.21%    
2.    Firefox   15,929    28.93%    
3.    Safari   3,740    6.79%    
4.    Chrome   566    1.03%    
5.    Opera   311    0.56%    
6.    SeaMonkey   113    0.21%    
7.    Netscape   61    0.11%    
8.    Mozilla   41    0.07%    
9.    Playstation 3   7    0.01%


COME AWN FIREFOX!!!!!

[kneedownnate]

I just can't believe so many people still use Internet Exploder 

So yea, I talked to my friend tonight, the one who's done IT for quite some time for the county, and he said that as usual, the media blew this little issue way out of proportion.  He said the patch for it has been out since september.

[abnormaltoy]

I just can't believe so many people still use Internet Exploder 

  I've tried others...I just like IE better. I've never had a problem with it. 

[unclejpl4x4]

MY firefox has been acting funny a little last 2days  and this moring it would not wake up from stand-by