Should We Shut Down Our Computers?
 

I was just watching 60 Minutes and they did a bit about the Virus worm "Conflictor". On April 1st (give or take a day), this horrible worm will get new instructions and could possibly infect our PCs..:eek:

From what I understand, there really is no protection against it. You can keep you protections up to date, but this worm finds ways around your protections. When infected, the hackers can transfer money from your account overseas without your knowledge.:eek:

I'm seriously considering shutting down my PC for awhile. It's not just attachments on e-mails, you have to worry about....that's easy, just don't open them.....But, just by clicking on an infected website, you can instantly be infected..:eek:

What are y'all gonna do about this Skeeeery Worm? 60 Minutes noted that even they were infected.....and they thought they were untouchable.

I saw it too, Salpal! The way the Conflicker Worm works, from what I understand, is that it's already in place and sitting dormant until the hacker tells it what to do. I am so tired of so called hackers ruining people's lives. We do banking online and it's just so easy for someone to steal our accts/money. But, then again~ a person can get any info they want from the internet anyway.

I don't think we will have much power over it. Some spyware will catch it if it's up to date, but they are worried about big corporations getting attacked as well.

I have to go away for a minute, so I can cuss about this mess.

checked on Snopes and they said they didn't think it would be a big deal - although one never knows and if it's already on your computer somewhere - unless your antivirus software has already found it - it's too late

Hmmm, well I may take the day off. April Fools day, ironic eh?

There's information about this worm in the Computer & Technology Forum. Who Moi, and Jo*Mar have been kind enought to provide information.

Here's a link : http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread82637.html

I'm going to update my computers tonight, and then I'll probably shut down all the Windows computers for the rest of the week and stay online with my iMac.

I love my iMac. I never used to like Mac's until my dad handed this one down to me.

What's to keep this worm from springing into action before April 1st? Say....March 31st? Now that would be an April Fool's joke. And not a very funny one.

I'm so tired of all these threats. Don't people have better things to do than try and take advantage of others??? :mad:

They said, on 60 minutes that, this is headed by a bunch of Russian Kids and the leader is all of 14 yrs old.

Where are their Parents?:mad:

Probably waiting for little Johnny to hack into some financial institutions files and transfer $$.

They'll be very disappointed if they get into mine!! :o