Well, one worm specifically. Some people may have heard of the Conficker worm. If you’re Mac user, you’re safe, this is only for windows users. The Conficker worm is very widespread. It has managed to infect a lot of computers.

One of the reasons so many people are so worried, is that its highly encrypted, so experts haven’t been able to really look at its programing to figure out what it will do. Some things are now known, as it has come out of hibernation and began doing things. The concern to the average user is that it may save some of your important information and share it with website you don’t want it shared with. It may also download fake anti-virus software and encourage you to pay to have that software remove viruses from your computer. [READ MORE]