Jeff Rangel

This April 1st may be no joke.

A potentially dangerous Internet Worm, called CONFICKER, may erupt on as many as three million computers worldwide.

This WORM already resides and lies dormant on infected PCs.

If CONFICKER is on your computer now, you would not know it unless your virus protection program detects it.

On April 1st, the WORM will activate, go onto the internet and possibly download a more danger version of itself.

Millions of computers in tandem may attack some internet target. Or perhaps it will steal personal information from your computer and transmit it across the internet.

We here at WFMY have answers on how to protect your computer and your personal information.

If you clean the WORM off your computer before April 1st, the date it mutates into a more dangerous version, it is fairly easy and safe to remove the worm.

Visit the Microsoft site, Microsoft.com, to download a free program which will kill this worm if it's on your system.

Perhaps this is just an April Fool's hoax. Microsoft doesn't think so.

And even if it is a joke. Why not use the next two days to run your virus protection programs to make sure your computer and personal information are not at risk.

microsoft.com