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While the rest of the world bit its nails in terror that the Conficker worm would somehow rise up and swamp the internet on 1 April, Russian wags seized on the opportunity to craft a subtle April Fool joke. A story by Russian news agency RIA Novost that police in Belarus had arrested a pair of suspects looked plausible enough …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    lolz

    Wow, that was a hilarious april fool they played there.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Curious Russian name.

    And Kandyba?

  3. Andrew Moore
    Coat

    And...

    If you look on their web forum there's a lot of upper case cyrillic ranting from one Sara Beeovitch

  4. EnricoSuarve
    Coat

    Russians have a Scunthorpe?

    Poor bastards

    Mine'll be the flame-retardant one...

  5. Sir Runcible Spoon
    Joke

    re:comedy equivalent of Scunthorpe

    So, like Rakfannynov then?

  6. Sillyfellow
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    not funny

    people should not be making jokes and disinformation about this very serious problem.

  7. amanfromMars Silver badge

    Conficker... the Al Qaeda False Flag Operation of the Binary World?

    "not funny ... people should not be making jokes and disinformation about this very serious problem." ...... By Sillyfellow Posted Thursday 2nd April 2009 12:47 GMT

    And that very serious problem would be exactly what, Sillyfellow? A supposed worm which apparently does nothing or nothing malicious. Although of course, that is not to say that IT cannot crash corrupted systems but that would be a Public Service and not a serious problem either.

  8. Igor Krein

    Just to make it clear

    This is the original source: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=ru&js=n&u=http://webplanet.ru/news/security/2009/03/31/conficker.html&sl=ru&tl=en (there is more "information" here ;))

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    Seriously now

    I don't like to brag but it wasn't created by the Chinese or by the Russians.

    I made it at home in an attempt to eventually land a job as a highly paid IT security contractor.

    It's a bit too high profile for that though, so I'm off to write a less nasty one that'll help get my foot on the ladder.

    Mine's the "L33T" one with the source code, hacker magazine and "Big Book of Lies" in the pocket.

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Linux

    re: not funny

    "people should not be making jokes and disinformation about this very serious problem."

    You're right, people should be wiping their machines and installing Linux on them to avoid these problems.

    But they're not, so apparently nobody fucking cares about this "very serious problem".

  11. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Wait...

    ...a Russian web site printing dubious news? Say it isn't so...

  12. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "from one Sara Beeovitch"

    That would be "Sara Beeyova" (Сара Биёва)...

  13. Juan Inamillion

    Oh come on....

    "Lieutenant Andrew Kandyba...

    Andy Candy Bar?

    Perlease.... Bit more coffee needed at Vulture Central, methinks.

  14. Bounty

    decrypt skype?

    I like the subtle jab at the CIA or whatever. Didn't they post a big reward for anyone that could decrypt skype calls?

  15. Kieron McCann

    NSFW

    It would have been good to know that the link to the Babrusk web site is most certainly NSFW

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