OMG NOES

[theweaselking]

CONFICKER HAS DESTROYED THE INTERNETS! ALL THE MEGABYTES ARE DOWN! WE ARE DOOMED! DOOOOOMED!

If I'd had this blog on Jan 1 2000, I would have posted pretty much this then, too.

Comments

[blucrowlaughing.livejournal.com]

DOOOOOMED! also conficker stole my taco.

My idiot roommate in 1999 at the time stock piled water and food for the Y2K thing :)

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

Conficker punched my cat. :/

[sanityimpaired.livejournal.com]

My family did something similar, to the point of seriously considering purchasing a shotgun. In hindsight, the shotgun would have been a good idea. Doomsday scenarios don't worry me; panicked people who riot/loot/attack their neighbours do.

Which sounds crackpotish until you consider that it happened in Louisiana during Katrina.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, it was supposed to destroy the internet today, wasn't it?

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

Only if you believe tabloid-quality news sources.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

Man, next you'll be saying Bigfoot's amazing new diet isn't real either.

[artemisgoddess.livejournal.com]

Did Conflicker actually do *anything* yet today?

[blackflag669.livejournal.com]

Sent a whole lot of people into unreasoning panic?

My work is blocking a bunch of sites today "just in case". Up to and including dictionary.com.

[jerril]

Yeah, it's gently pinging to see if the server that's supposed to update it exists.

It has a LOT of different addresses to check though, so it's doing it on the sly and gently.

Duder probably won't set up the server for another month :D

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Someone set up us the bomb?

[eididdy.livejournal.com]

I see you waited until you were safely within April 1st before making this statement =D

[artemisgoddess.livejournal.com]

...never considered that. It'd be hysterical and the best April Fool's prank ever if Conflicker infected so many computers and whatnot and it doesn't do anything today at all.

[eididdy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd thought of that too (thought the timing was a bit convenient), but I was more commenting on the fact that Weasely waited until it was reasonably far enough through the day (globally) before making his "I ain't 'fraid of no Conficker!" post. As opposed to, say, posting it last night.

It's still a great April Fool's Day prank even if that was not the intent: look at the panic that this thing has engendered.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You can't say "OMG CONFICKER HAS DESTROYED THE INTERTUBES" until after it does. Otherwise, it doesn't make any sense.

I was mostly prompted by all the "Whew, we sure dodged a bullet!" techgeeknews articles.

[ryusen.livejournal.com]

Well to be honest, it's more of the "what could it possibly do once triggered kind of thing. Hence my "Skynet" post the other week.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Kitty is actually eating your (sorry, ur) current (sorry, kurent), which is why I am very relieved to see the actual plug visible in the picture.

[jerril]

Sadly, my cat thinks it's jolly good fun to sit on my tower and try to yank the power cable out of the PSU. First time she did it, I was in the middle of a WoW raid and didn't notice until my computer died. She looked so smug right before I started screaming.

You'd think the scare would have taught her but nooooooo...

[zdallin.livejournal.com]

*sneezes*

[frith]

Conficker made it rain on me.