Okay so, I won’t even explain Conficker, since Lord knows it’s been in the news enough for you to pick up on, but why oh why was this worm blown so out of proportion?  We’ve definitely had worse, not to mention it wasn’t taking down massive network infastructures or causing mass identity theft like a normal, good-boy worm.  Let’s face it: It just sat on people’s computers, it was technically a virus, it caused a few annoying pop-ups, but no April fools big bang.  So what’s the deal?  Why do you think Conficker was taken so much more seriously than you average computer virus?  Am I wrong?  Is the big bang still to come?  Time will only tell, but as always people: Stay patched, and use good security software on you PC.  Most importantly, stay way from unusal website, e-mails, and other questionable activity.