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Question. Does anyone know where these things start up? I mean, I haven't downloaded anything from the internet for a while now, so I can't see where the fuck it's come from.
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Actually, that was what made the Conficker virus spread so fast - it didn't require you to actually do anything to get infected. There was a vulnerability in Windows that allowed the virus to just scan networks for computers to infect, so all you needed to do to get infected by it is have your computer turned on and connected to the internet and not have installed the patch from Microsoft to fix it
(A patch which was actually released quite some time before the virus was created I might add)
Then in one of the updates for the virus it gained the ability to infect USB memory sticks that are plugged into an infected computer, which means if you plug an infected memory stick into your computer you could get it that way too (from memory I think it used the Auto-run feature to trick people into running it).
So yeah... you can keep most viruses out by just being smart about the sites you visit and the files you download, but this virus was an exception
@Leto - My dad is a computer technician and he also fully endorses NOD32. Good product
@Enchilado - I also use Ubuntu, but I think part of the reason there aren't really much viruses for it is that there's more $$$ to be had in infecting Windows computers, where the biggest market share is. I
think (but I'm not 100% sure on this) that someone has made a proof-of-concept virus that was capable of infected Linux machines.
Of course, there's also the way how it's difficult for a virus to do extensive damage to a Linux (or Mac for that matter) machine due to not having root access and bla bla, but I think to most people they'd be more upset if their personal files which
are vulnerable were damaged.