Australia Computer News

The development of technology in Australia has been an intriguing case study. For one, Australia is a developed nation, but in many respects the country is very different from other English-speaking nations.

Thirty percent of Australians live in rural areas. The coastal urban areas are major tech hot-spots, but the size and spread of Australia's central desert region makes the cost of Internet infrastructure extremely high and the delivery of technology and electronics more complicated to manage.

Nevertheless, computer and Internet usage do not appear to be leveling off and instead appear poised for further growth once the global economy picks up again. ">

Stay plugged into the latest computer news and gossip from the Land Down Under. We'll let you know as soon as it happens.

So finally a positive not on the Conficker worm. Although the hackers who launched the conficker may seem in control, its looking like things might be under control. Just yesterday a scanner came to the rescue. We'll see how it does. Whatever you do, protect your computers from this worm in any way possible.

In summary, the conficker is targeted to you Windows operating system. As of now, you should be safe with a mac, or anything else really. The worm works by by secretly installing itself in a random location, giving itself a random name, and booting up upon a restart of your operating system. The main effect of the worm is that it disables essential features such as Windows Updates, Windows Error Reporting, and Windows Defender.

So get out there and research the patches and get on the bandwagon before your computers get taken over by the conficker. For more information on the conficker, visit here.