Yes, patch your system as well. (I'm used to doing that as soon as the patches are available...)
And it looks like http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/01 ... ctivation/]my bet was wrong... but that's no excuse to not take computer hygene seriously.
Edit: And here's http://www.dshield.org/conficker]a list of actual anti-Conficker resources (as opposed to the scareware and malware that are pretending to be anti-Conficker tools). Ignore the ads (in case any of them are for scareware and malware that are pretending to be anti-Conficker tools); trust only the list in the article itself.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
And it looks like http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/01 ... ctivation/]my bet was wrong... but that's no excuse to not take computer hygene seriously.
Edit: And here's http://www.dshield.org/conficker]a list of actual anti-Conficker resources (as opposed to the scareware and malware that are pretending to be anti-Conficker tools). Ignore the ads (in case any of them are for scareware and malware that are pretending to be anti-Conficker tools); trust only the list in the article itself.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012