Well, I can tell you from personal experience...

CONFICKR SUCKS ASS!

There was no way to get rid of that crap, so I ended up boot & nuking my computer. (Wiping everything to the point that it's absolutely irrecoverable)

My CD burner ended up not working, so I couldn't evacuate my important files before I dropped the nuke, so I ended up missing the deadline for a $2000 business deal, so I was pretty pissed

For those who aren't that computer savvy, W32.Confickr.exe is a deadly virus that has been spreading around the globe at an enormous rate. It focuses on using your computer as a gateway to transfer stolen confidential government information, Terrorist plots, etc.

Apparently it's being run by some underground botnet operation, but the weird thing is... They traced it back to the Chinese government! Wh...What if they're trying to overtake the world!? O.o

But yeah... It's bound to happen one day or another, If this is the end of the world they were talking about happening in 2012... I think it's starting a little early. If it is the Chinese spying on us... It's not going to end well.

The really scary thing about this virus is it's remote controlled. The one pulling the strings behind all this can just type in a command that says..Idk, >DELETEFILE=C:\WINDOWS or something, and it would screw up every computer that's infected with Confickr. That would destroy like 3/4 of the computers in the world! This is probably the most elaborate plot in history. Shut down a country's defense systems, and then launch the nukes. So yeah, if you have Confickr, or you think you do... Your computer will be running slower than usual, and Windows update will be blocked as well as anything on the web that could lead to the deletion of the virus. If you do manage to get a removal tool or something on your computer, the virus will delete it as soon as you put it on your comp. Also, when yout boot up the computer, the virus will shut down your CD Drive for the boot up process so you can't remove it with a CD either.

The only thing it allows you to do is reformat your hard drive, which would delete your files, and most likely leave the virus intact since it embeds itself into your hard drive. I would recommend not plopping a removeable storage device into your computer anywhere because the virus latches onto it and installs itself on any PC you use that storage device on.

You should install the confickr patch if you already haven't. Trust me, you don't want to get this thing. I didn't think I'd need the patch, so I ignored it and look what happened to me! >.<