Danger Will Robinson, Danger!

Well well well. It looks like some hacker has done it again! There is a new variation of the Conficker worm out there called Conficker C. This little worm is tricky to get rid of and even trickier for the IT gods to stop! Yahoo! Tech posted an article today about the new version and how on April 1st it will go active (http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/128643/beware-conficker-worm-come-april-1/). No one really knows what it'll do, but it has the potential to be a big nightmare...obviously so if Microsoft is offering a $250,000 bounty to whoever turns the hacker in! That'd be a nice little gift. :) You would, however, be the target of every hacker out there for the rest of your life though. I guess that you could spend that large pay check on a highly sophisticated firewall, or you could just unplug your computer from the internet. Anyway, the point is, keep your antivirus up to date, download and install Microsofts patches and always be aware of what you are downloading and installing from third parties. Microsoft is currently offering a free scan from one-care here: http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm. Be ware though, if you have an illegal copy of Windows or any other software, don't run this. It will let Microsoft know and then you'll be in a load of trouble. ;)