Conficker’s All Fools Day

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

I know it’s true because I read it in … let’s see … where was that? Oh, it’s right here in the newspaper. Just above the ad for washing machines. Yeah, see that? Toldja so.

Gimme a break. Yes, Conficker is changing on April 1. No, you don’t need to worry about it.

There’s an excellent, reasoned blog post about Conficker on the F-Secure site. What? An antivirus manufacturer says you don’t need to panic, while the venerable Sun says “MILLIONS of computers around the world could go into meltdown on April 1 because of a deadly virus.” Gawrsh. And they have a very nice ad for washing machines, too.

If you’re still running Windows XP, it would behoove you to hop over to the F-Secure Q&A. Down at the bottom, there’s a link to the F-Secure scanner, which will detect and remove all known versions of Conficker.

And you won’t get hit up about dirty laundry…