No one wants their computer to get infected by a virus or worm. Everyday people's computer are infected with viruses and worms. If your computer is infected it can steal your data, spread spam or commit other routine cybercrimes. A computer worm can run itself and it also can spread without a host program.
A nasty worm named "Conficker" has infected at least a million Pc's. The Conficker worm spreads itself to other computers and prevents itself from being removed from your computer. It also can make a copy of itself on any device plugged into a USB port, which in turns, when you go to plug that device in another computer, that computer is infected also, therefore spreading more infections.
Why would anyone want to do such a thing. People don't have anything better to do these days. Can't they find something better to do with their lives. Always be careful of what you download on your computer. If you are not sure of the site then don't download. If you are not sure who sent you an email, don't open it.Take precautions to safeguard your computer. Run regularly scheduled antivirus scans on your computer.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/computers/
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Someone will need to develop a USB device scanner that will scan for potentially unwanted programs and virus like these on USB flash drives if such a thing does not already exist.
ReplyDeleteI will have to check my AVG anti-virus program to see if it scans USB devices automatically.