No joke in April Fool's Day computer worm

[SuperStingray]

Its just a matter of time until someone aims toward the Macs. You guys will be lured into a false sense of security with the Mac doesn't have viruses belief and get hit hard lol.

I heard a guy recently hacked the core code of a mac in 10 seconds.

[Shades]

Here it is. The big moment.

Uploading a vid I had waiting, deleting internet cache, running a scan at midnight. Firewalls on, I'm ready for the massacre.

Inb4 April Fools, inb4 inb4 called it.

[Tiller]

Bring it on. I already countered the upside down forum, so I'm ready for anything. I hope it just rick rolls all of the computer infected to bring about a silly sort of "in your face" mentality that would scare people into actually paying attention to what they download. Of course, none of that would ever happen in this screwed up world.

Edited April 1, 2009 by Rauzaruke

[Jetronic]

It's 12:03 am where I live now.

So has anything serious happened to anyone as of now =P?

*watches clock tick*

Edit: Now it's 12:04 am

[Tiller]

It's 12:03 am where I live now.

So has anything serious happened to anyone as of now =P?

*watches clock tick*

Edit: Now it's 12:04 am

My Ad-aware program is acting fugly. That's about it. But it's always done that with the current setup I have. Guess it's nothing to go by...yet.

[Sean]

Suddenly, Mac users everywhere are hit with a circuit-sizzling virus that completely blocks all electric flow into the mainframe, instead of the originally intended Windows users as many had feared.

As an added bonus, it also renders all material in the computer non-recyclable.

APPLE FUEL.

Edited April 1, 2009 by Jake

[Gatestormer]

I'm good

[Remy]

Has this hit anywhere?

Was it like a joke or wut? :?

[Eileanach]

Nothing major here. I wonder what poor saps got hit.

[Urtheart]

Depending on the Viruses target location it may not have been activated yet.

[DarkOverord]

I do wonder if it'll happen at a specific time according to one of the American Time Zone. As opposed to every other time zone.

[SuperLink]

Prolly not gonna happen until later. Annoying thing is I completely forgot this morning and ended up leaving my router on after leaving for college! I think it'll be 'k though. I absolutely have to finish my media coursework so there's no way I'm staying off the computater today.

[Indigo Rush]

My computer's just fine... anyone elses' blow up yet?

[Kernel Machinegun]

I have all my drivers updated, NoScript installed, I have Avira Antivirus (updated), I have the latest Windows updates (I think)...

Meh, I'm fine.

[Carbo]

Yeah I have a bigass problem actually. SSMB mirrored all the pictures earlier and now its displaying everything in seizure colors. Darn that worm!!!

Edited April 1, 2009 by Carbo

[Urtheart]

That's a completely different Virus, some people don't even think it is a virus.

[DarkOverord]

Yeah I have a bigass problem actually. SSMB mirrored all the pictures earlier and now its displaying everything in seizure colors. Darn that worm!!!

Personally. I'm just partying hard.

[SuperLink]

Personally. I'm just partying hard.

Best. Virus. Ever.

Dammit, finally SSMB's carelessness pays off (). All the other forums don't get the awesome "WHOA IT'S A PARTY" virus. Sucks to be them!

Edited April 1, 2009 by SuperLink

[Tori Himemiya]

The virus hasn't gotten my labtop. I disconnected the entire ethernet cable.

So... I'm going to be using my school's computers since they seem to be doing fine... But that means no MySpace or Youtube for me...

[Patticus]

I disconnected the entire ethernet cable.

I'm loving the implication here that it's possible to only disconnect half, even a quarter of a cable.

[Gabz Girl]

My computer is fine~ well it is at the moment anyway. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it at all!

PS: WOWOWOW PSYCHEDELIC ACID TRIP FTW! @w@

Edited April 1, 2009 by Gabz Girl

[Sega DogTagz]

No epic disaster on my end either. Also, all the Uni'd comps seem to be humming along fine as well.

The local news radio station (WTOP) is all over this story though. They said that nothing big has happened as of yet, but the treat probably won't end until later.

[Xenn]

Why do I get the feeling this was all some well set up joke? All the PC's in my house are perfectly fine.

[Eileanach]

The fear of it being a rumour is enough to put a lot of fear into a lot people to encourage a bit of spread and drama. That's all it takes. =)

Pity though I'd like to have witnessed what it allegedly was capable of.

[JezMM]

I think we've all learned today that the real viruses in our lives... are fear and panic.

And the ones that blow up your computer.