There’s a story on TechCentral that reports that Ireland is still awash in infected USB sticks, e.g. by Conficker.  There was a reporter/photographer on site when we were doing the Belfast launch events for Exchange 2010, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.  Dave Northey of Microsoft Ireland asked if he could get some of the photos.  The photographer hander over a USB stick and Dave joked about “hoping there aren’t any viruses on there”.

Dave plugged in the stick and that’s when Microsoft Security Essentials popped up an alert.  The free antivirus package for homes and SOHO’s found Conficker which was then automatically cleaned up.  Yeap, those infected sticks are still running wild!