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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 |
What dick sat in his mum's basement making a virus like that?! I'll be downloading this Nod32 if you're all recommending it, I don't want any other viruses eating at all my work. This auto-run feature, is there a way to turn it off? When we first had the laptop I'm sure it never used to do that until mum messed with it one day and changed a few of the settings.