Conficker headline competition – we have a winner!

Thanks to everyone who entered the Conficker news headline competition I was running earlier this week.

Here’s just a few of the entries:

and I’m a bit disappointed that no-one submitted this inspired headline from CNet:

But, of course, I had to choose a winner and here it is:

Congratulations to Brian from the Datacenter at California State University San Bernardino for submitting the “Tick. Tick. Tick” headline (some others submitted it too, but Brian was first).

I must admit that my vote was swayed a little by one of the other headlines..

Fact fans may be interested to know that Brian, who takes a medium-sized T-shirt, works as a Systems Administrator at the university, helping out with end user support.

Thanks to everyone once again for taking part in the competition. We’ll do another one again soon.

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