"Conficker has activated," said Patrik Runald, chief security adviser at F-Secure, in a blog post on Tuesday. "So far nothing has actually happened."**********
Thanks to the rise of news aggregation services like Google News, once a nonevent reaches critical mass, every industry observer and media outlet is more or less obligated to weigh in.
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The folks at Telegraph.co.uk tell the story of Mike Taylor, who recently began having computer troubles related to his laptop's cooling fan. When Mike attempted to investigate the problem through an IT repairman, the two came across perhaps one of the most effective worms we've seen to date.*
An actual worm had made its way through the cooling vents of the laptop, and up to the fan where it caused a complete cooling failure.