3 responses to “Conficker: the Inside Story”

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   john June 14th, 2009 at 08:27

   mcfee sucks and windows defender is good i had this program hiding on my system i dont know if you read my reply ouch sorry if you did my mouse and keyboard was alittle off because of this malware mcfee did not find this malware with 2 full scans and windows defender found it the secound full scan i hope it got rid of it all if i have to do a fresh install i need the same vista cd’s right i hope it goes smooth for me i did a factory recovery one time thinking it would recover vista that was not the case and i had to bring it back and get them to program it again and it cost me 150$ with out a vista install cd so what a waist of money that was so this time i want the install cd so i dont have to spend 150$ for the install over and over there is already a windows activation key on my system do i just right that down and enter it when the time comes?ps i have never done a windows install so im not sure what will be to come i know i need the key i hope it wasnt changed last time it was reprogramed if it was could i just use the key from a new vista home premium with sp1 key and will it still do a clean install?srry for all this typing any help would be supper fly:)

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   woody June 14th, 2009 at 15:12

   John -

   If you already paid someone $150 to re-install Vista, take the machine back to them and have them do it over again.

   Charging someone $150 for an install CD is highway robbery.

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   Vinoth July 19th, 2009 at 22:25

   Actually NMAP have a feature to detect conficker infected PC