Posted by Jim Guerber on April 14, 2009 at 01:03:54:
The latest Mark Minasi Newsleter has this:
Hi All --
Mark Minasi with a neat thing I ran across the other day: a
"Conficker eye chart." The idea is simple: a guy named Joe
Stewart, a fellow who's part of a group of concerned souls
called the "Conficker Working Group" -- mostly big-name security
and Internet infrastructure folks -- realized that because one
of Conficker's side-effects is to block your access to certain
security sites (Conficker's creators didn't want you down-
loading anti-Conficker tools from those sites), he could build
a non-blockable way of testing for infection. How? It's a
great idea: he put together a Web page containing links to
several images from those blocked-if-you're-infected sites. To
see it, visit
http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/infection_test/cfeyechart.html
And you can immediately a clue or two about where you stand,
Conficker-wise.
My hat's off to Joe, the Conficker Working Group, and anyone else
who's trying to cut the latest 'bot off at the knees. I've done
a number of radio interviews about Conficker in the past few weeks
and I always get the same question -- "how do I know?" I usually
tell people who use Windows that if they've done any patching at
all in the past few months then they can probably just run "mrt,"
the Malicious Software Removal Tool that's already right on their
systems -- but this is a wonderfully better (and cross-platform)
answer. I hope this is useful.
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