A computer-science wild west story is playing out on the Internet as security experts try to hunt down a worm called Conficker C and prevent it from damaging millions of computers on April Fool's Day.
The anti-worm researchers have come together to search for the malicious software program's author and for ways to do damage control if he or she can't be stopped. They're motivated in part by a $250,000 bounty from Microsoft.
The program could delete all of the files on a person's computer, use zombie PCs to overwhelm and shut down Web sites or monitor a person's keyboard strokes to collect private information like passwords or bank account information.
Does this mean we shouldn't log onto the Internet on April's Fools Day? Maybe you should update your Internet Virus Software and consider increasing your Firewall security on April 1, 2009. Better Safe Than Sorry.
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