Protect Your Computer From The Conflicker Virus

The Conflicker virus is a worm that has spread rapidly across networks in the past couple weeks. It is estimated that is has alread infected over nine million computers. The worm exploits a Windows bug that has been patched by Microsoft. The scary thing about this virus is that the end-user doesn't need to do anything dangerous to become infected. Simply being on the Internet or a Local Area Network (LAN) is enough to get the virus.

Be sure to at least do the following to protect yourself from this and other types of viruses:

1. Turn on Automatic Updates in Windows.
2. Turn on your Windows firewall
3. Visit Microsoft Updates and get any patches you might have missed.
4. Run and up to date antivirus program

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