{"id":17,"date":"2009-03-31T13:51:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T21:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/technologyservices\/2009\/03\/31\/steps-taken-to-block-conficker-%e2%80%9capril-fool%e2%80%99s-day%e2%80%9d-worm\/"},"modified":"2013-05-06T09:31:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T16:31:02","slug":"steps-taken-to-block-conficker-april-fools-day-worm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/technologyservices\/2009\/03\/31\/steps-taken-to-block-conficker-april-fools-day-worm\/","title":{"rendered":"Steps Taken to Block Conficker \u201cApril Fool\u2019s Day\u201d Worm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/protect\/computer\/viruses\/worms\/conficker.mspx\">Conficker computer worm<\/a> is expected to activate April 1, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>TS has taken steps to protect university-owned PC systems by installing the necessary Windows security patch and keeping McAfee VirusScan definitions current.<\/p>\n<p>To protect your home systems, install all <a href=\"http:\/\/ups.edu\/x10834.xml\">Windows high-priority updates<\/a> and ensure <a href=\"http:\/\/resnet.ups.edu\/downloads.shtml\">McAfee VirusScan<\/a> is installed and anti-virus definitions are current.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/protect\/computer\/viruses\/worms\/conficker.mspx\">Conficker computer worm<\/a> is expected to activate April 1, 2009.\u00a0 TS has taken steps to protect university-owned PC systems by installing the necessary Windows security patch and keeping McAfee VirusScan definitions current.<\/p>\n<p>To protect your home systems, install all <a href=\"http:\/\/ups.edu\/x10834.xml\">Windows high-priority updates<\/a> and ensure <a href=\"http:\/\/resnet.ups.edu\/downloads.shtml\">McAfee VirusScan<\/a> is installed and anti-virus definitions are current.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/technologyservices\/2009\/03\/31\/steps-taken-to-block-conficker-april-fools-day-worm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/technologyservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/technologyservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/technologyservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/technologyservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/technologyservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/technologyservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/technologyservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/technologyservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/technologyservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/technologyservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}