<p>I agree with BCEagle. Viruses have become very nasty of late. My husbands computer crashed with Antivirus 2008 (a virus that mimics antivirus software). Then my son’s computer also crashed. Hmmm, I thought, they must be visiting unsafe sites. </p>
<p>Then, MY computer got the infection. And I am fully protected with up to date virus and spyware software. And I knew it was a virus right away (didn’t accept any of the offers) but that didn’t help. Awful. I know it infected millions of computers across the country.<br>
I don’t visit crazy sites, but I do searches off google for information or for products I’m interested in purchasing. I don’t plan to give up doing research on my computuer. </p>
<p>The only software I could find to remove the virus was Malwarebytes (SpyBot, my trusted program, was useless). I was lucky. My husbands entire drive was wiped out. If a hard drive was attached, it would have gone down with the ship. </p>
<p>I would not feel safe at this point with a drive attached. I know I can pick up a virus when I plug it in, but I run all the scans before I do so. And I usually know if I have something going on by the way my computer behaves. </p>
<p>BCEagle.Thanks for the tips on Conflicker. I wish I could use a Mac but my clients are Windows folks so I worry about compatibility.</p>