We have received several queries from clients about the so-called Conficker virus scheduled to deliver a payload on April 1st. It’s getting a lot of attention in the news this week because of the April 1st date, but it really isn’t a bigger threat than scores of other viruses in the wild we confront every day. Here’s some of the news hype from last week’s New York Times: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/the-conficker-worm-april-fools-joke-or-unthinkable-disaster/ Generally, if yo...

This article was provided by our good friend, Brad Patten of Bitwits, Inc. (www.bitwits.com) Microsoft has just released a patch for Internet Explorer to fix a recently discovered and very dangerous security flaw that could allow hackers to install viruses and malware on computers that visit a malicious or infected website. The vulnerability is in all versions of Internet Explorer: 5.0, 6.0, 7.0 - even beta releases of 8.0. Here is a good summary of the issue: http://arstechnica.com/jour...