jsinger - 4:57 pm on Jan 22, 2009 (gmt 0)

I'm not seeing a connection to how it would affect [shopping]

While there are different and ever-more virulent strains of the worm, in most cases infected machines are useless for ordering and even for browsing. I certainly wouldn't enter confidential info into one.

BTW, the stock market is way off today after Microsoft announced layoffs and said they'd no longer provide financial guidance to investors. I wouldn't trust them to be truthful about this worm.