April Fool's Day - What's to Come?

So it seems that the fact that the Conficker Worm's code is scheduled to update on April 1st has finally gone beyond the immediate tech world because our support team have fielded several calls from concerned clients regarding the big event that is to be April Fools Day. The problem is that no one really understands what's going on with this thing, that includes the experts to a degree. The average concerned citizen simply has heard of this giant scary computer worm that is poised to attack on April 1st and just maybe drain everyone's bank accounts right before melting their harddrives from within.
Though it is true this worm has grown very large, it has yet to do anything besides change its code a couple of times, and spread. It is also true that Conficker has not utilized email as a means to spread, it scours the internet looking for unpatched computers on the other end and slips in. So the key is to make sure you have updated Windows if that's what you use, and disable your autorun feature as well, since this is another means of propogating that the worm uses. It is able to jump on removable media devices such as external drives or USB keys and travel to other computers and by means of it's own autorun.inf file, it can pwn another machine.
Here is the link to the Microsoft patch and here's one to instructions on how to disable your AutoRun feature.
While we're at it, here is a link to the Conficker removal tool.
Ok, just two more, here's an excellent and only slightly sarcastic FAQ about the worm from F-Secure that will help ease the pain, and a detailed Conficker timeline from Byron Acohido that will shed even more light on this new annoying worm.