"Conficker eye chart. check if you are infected

[LA ACT Certified]

Courtesy of Mark Minasi's Tech Newsletter Alert:

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.

Thanks Mark, I passed!

For more info on Mark go to his site: www.minasi.com

Victoria Marechal
ACT! Certified Consultant
Technical Writer
www.crm-it.net