Conficker-Anyone hear about it?

[TC_Halogen]

Originally Posted by JKPolk

The fact that people are mocking it and saying it's not dangerous. No one except the designer right now has ANY idea what's going to happen when this is activated. All these people talking about turning off their computers are dumb, that's not how a 0-day worm works. All these people talking about "I'm safe because I never open attachments" are dumb, that's not how worms spread.

I'm glad that you at least believe that an outbreak is happening. I somewhat understand that it might be unnecessary to turn off your PC--but you said it yourself, I'm not sure what's going to happen when it's activated. I'm just being overly safe. Better than sorry, in my opinion.