I think this has been said enough “ITS COMING”, the latest version of Conflicker is expected to start whatever it is that it is supposed to do, tomorrow (As of now I’m not aware of anyone really knowing what its going to do?) so you need to update your systems NOW.  Ok let me say it 1 more time “UPDATE NOW”!

    The reason computer attacks (and that’s what they are), get as big as they do, is because people don’t do what they are supposed to.  Imagine everyday cars breaking down all around you, why because those owners never bothered to change their own oil or to take the car to a professional (if they didn’t know what they were doing) and getting the oil changed.  Well that’s what is currently happening with computers.  A computer is not a TV folks, you cant just click it on use it and click it off.  A computer is like a car, you need to give your computer tune up’s, “oil” changes, check under the hood.  A rule I understood early into my geek career is that “90% of all pc issues occur between the keyboard and the chair”. 

   As a reminder if I haven’t made it clear yet “UPDATE YOUR SYSTEM  NOW!”  Let me give you links and a quick how to as to how you can minimize the risk to your computer.  I’m not going to tell you that this is 100% full proof, consider it like the seat belts in your car, you never expect to get into a car, but when you do, aren’t you glad you put the belt on.

   To help minimize your risks…..

In all Windows operating systems up to Windows XP (Get online and) go to 

windowsupdate.Microsoft.com/ which is the Windows update website. From there you will see 2 choices express and custom.  If you choose express you will get the choice of updates that Microsoft has created to improve or secure your system. If you choose custom, you will see a list of all files that can be updated on your system.  I choose to run custom and make sure i update everything. 

If your on Vista or windows 7 all you do is go to start – windowsupdate in the start menu itself and a window will appear automatically telling you what you can choice and then it will download and install automatically.

If you run any software by Microsoft that isn’t the operating system (XP, windows 2000, etc) the you should visit http://update.microsoft.com/ (http://update NULL.microsoft NULL.com/) which will do the same updating, for all other products (office, etc), plus your windows updates all in the same place.

   The problem with the software that allowed Conflicker to work, was fixed in Oct 2008.  If everyone would have already been upto date, they would have made the back page news not 60 minutes.

• **One more thing, if you are unable to access either of the 2 Microsoft sites, then you should check your system as you may already infected you.  In that case, you may want to try running the following tools on your pc.

The Microsoft software removal tool – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD724AE0-E72D-4F54-9AB3-75B8EB148356&displaylang=en (http://www NULL.microsoft NULL.com/downloads/details NULL.aspx?FamilyId=AD724AE0-E72D-4F54-9AB3-75B8EB148356&displaylang=en)

or the free trial version (which does a good job) of Malware bytes to clean your machine http://www.malwarebytes.org/ (http://www NULL.malwarebytes NULL.org/).