I guess we have something of an ironic advantage, what with the source of the vulnerability in Pacific time in Redmond, and us in Eastern time, and Greenwich time hours earlier. So we can thank Europe for being our early watchdogs.

Even if a vulnerability was discovered and patched last October, as this one was, it remains a latent threat. Recently I dusted off a computer that was never connected to the Net (used for video work) and sold it to a friend. Within seconds of connecting it to the Net it became infected with multiple old Windows XP SP1 vintage assaults.

You'd hope and expect that any MSU-owned computer would be up to date with Windows Update, but there may be the odd machine that's not current as to OS or anti-virus.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:19 PM, STeve Andre' <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

It might help if we tried to keep conficker talk in one thread?

So far, my european friends report nothing weird going on.
As I write this its the beginning of the day in the Netherlands
and I've only gotten "nope not yet" responses from people with
test machines that have been confickered.

But NA isn't at the 1st yet, and I think evil minds might wait
till we're there till doing stuff.

Time will tell, but I think this isn't going to do much. I mean,
why announce it?

--STeve Andre'
Political Science