Editor’s Note: Molly Wood is an executive editor and on-camera personality at CNETTV.com. Molly hosts the weekly Buzz Report video blog, a sort of "Daily Show" for tech news, and co-hosts the hilarious "Gadgettes" podcast, which proves that girls can (and should!) be geeks, too.

Luckily, this week’s Conficker worm crisis passed us by like so many near-miss asteroids, but if you’re thinking you don’t need to worry about it anymore, the April Fools’ joke is on you.

If you had the virus last week, it’s a good bet you’ve still got it this week, and that’s part of the problem: The worm is alive and well, and whether it’s spamming you or a growing weapon of Internet destruction is, well, it’s the point of this week’s Point/Counterpoint segment with Tom Merritt, actually. No matter what you think about the worm, though, computer security is a serious threat to your personal data, so make sure your antivirus software is up to date, your operating system is updating itself with the latest security patches and please, please be careful about opening attachments from people you don’t know.

The last thing you need is for your computer to become a link in the chain that could take down the Internet.