did the PC virus worm actually infect computers?

I see the mis-information continues. Don't believe everything you hear or read. Including some answers here.

The Conficker worm did indeed activate. So now several million computers are actively looking for new instructions and updates. Most of the computers infected are in China with around 40% and only about 6% are in the US if I remember the statistics right. If your system is up to date with all current security patches, then you are safe.

In any case, if you can access Microsoft updates and you can access any of the major anti-virus websites, then you are not infected by Conficker C or for some vendors it is D. The worm also kills restore points, stops booting into safe mode and the list goes on. If you Google Conficker you can find out more of the details and there is even a few free detection tools and I found an inoculation program that fools Conficker into thinking your computer is already infected. The page at sri.com has some very informative though rather technical write ups on Conficker and the various versions of it detected so far.

If your anti-virus program found 5 viruses, then they are viruses and not worms. The differences are somewhat subtle. Let the anti-virus program remove them and be done with it. I'm assuming that you have one of the major name anti-virus programs and not one of the scammer fakes that have been so common lately.

All of the major anti-virus programs can at least detect Conficker/Downadup and a few can also remove it with the rest offering removal tools.

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For a free test to see if your computer is infected, go to http://antivirus-firewall-software.org/conficker.a...

There is software there and tutorials to show you what to do to clean your computer.

Yes, about ten million computers have been infected by this malicious software. It was not a joke. The Microsoft security patches and some other things that were done by security experts prevented the activation.

If I were you I would take my computer to someone to fix it. I had the same problem, my computer was overran with viruses, so I took it to Best Buy and Geek Squad completely fixed it and installed new (good) anti-virus software. i highly recommend them. The computer worked like new when they finished. Hope this helps!

What you have is a rogue "antivirus" program giving pop ups that your computer is infected.

get the free Malwarebytes Anti-Malware from http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Open it go to "Settings" and uncheck the box "always scan extra and heuristics objects"

Select quick scan and delete all that it marks in red.

When a notice pops up to restart computer select yes.

If the rogue blocks Malwarebytes go into Safe Mode and run Malwarebytes from there.

could be anything use your anti virus system thats what it is for .

just what exactly told you that you have 5 viruses ?

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type in windowsupdate.microsoft.com

If you can access that then no its something else