Straight from a USA Today article proving viruses do just happen and they require an active effort on the user’s part to introduce them to a system.
A year after it first slithered onto the Internet, the Conficker worm remains as virulent as ever, despite an unprecedented eradication campaign. Meanwhile, a similar, though less heralded worm, Taterf, is gathering steam.
A recent phishing scam resulting in usernames and passwords of Microsoft’s Hotmail, Google’s Gmail, and possibly accounts of AOL and Yahoo users being posted online is cause for concern for anyone who uses any of those services. Rather than panic, there are simple ways to avoid becoming a victim or being further victimized, if your account has already been compromised.
Microsoft and Google said the compromised information likely came as a result of a phishing scam, through which millions of people are sent e-mail (often warnings about a fake security breach), asking them to click on a link to take them to a Web site so that they can enter their correct information.
