Hype on Conficter

[dimitrios at gmail.com (Dimitrios Kapsalis)]

The Ghost net article was actually a very good read.



2009/4/2 Tim Mugherini <gbugbear at gmail.com>

> Thanks for your replies thus far.
>
> Just read Paul's post on conficker from yesterday.
>
> To quote "We can speculate all day and night about why we made a big deal
> about this, but in the end I have to wonder, what else went on this week
> (and especially today) that we all missed because we were to busy
> Confickering?"
>
> Guess I was having the same line of thought. And to answer Paul's question
> on what I missed - Your post on Conficker! <dooh>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Raffi Jamgotchian <
> raffi at flossyourmind.com> wrote:
>
> > I had my 12 year old come home from school yesterday saying, "Don't
> > use your computers there's a virus going around!"
> >
> > So we had a sit down education. needless to say when it gets to the
> > major media its a good thing, but it always gets overhyped.
> >
> > On Apr 2, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Tim Mugherini wrote:
> >
> > > Just mentioning the C word at this point makes me vomit in my mouth,
> > > however, I am curious.
> > >
> > > How does everyone feel all the media hype around it this week as
> > > helped or hurt security awareness among the average user?
> > >
> > > I personally feel it may have taken away attention from GhostNet
> > > coverage which is a shame.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > >
> > > Good Day
> > >
> > > Tim
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