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I have to agree with you on this, Lovey.

nix_hed Updated - 1st Apr 2009

This thing was DOA since the patch has been out for quite some
time. It was more media scare tactics than anything, and even ZDNet is
in that guilty party.

Even media outlets can't get it right. I've seen stories that Conficker
infects patched Windows NT 5.x/6.x systems, Mac OS X machines,
Mac OS Classic machines, Linux Machines, and various distributions of
UNIX - Windows is the only target OS affected by this bug, and MS08-
067 fixed the vulnerability for conficker. The only OSes I've seen
conflicting information on are Windows
NT 4 and Windows 9x/ME.

The moral of the story - If you're a home user, make sure you do your
automatic updates, and if you're a business user, make sure you keep
your patches as close to up-to-date as possible.