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Diagnose Conficker With Web-Based Eye Chart
thomsomc writes "Joe Stewart from the Conficker Working Group has created an eye chart that allows for online identification of Conficker B and C infections. Using basic knowledge of the blacklisting that Conficker employs to avoid attempting to infect IPs that belong to popular Anti-Virus and security firms (including Microsoft), the group whipped up this very simple test to see if you can load content from the various pages. If you can see all of the images, you're more than likely Conficker-free. According to Honeynet, 'This detection method should be more reliable than network scanning based tests. Happy scanning!'" Related: Tech Fragments notes in passing that nothing much seems to have come of conficker's dreaded April 1 deadline.
It looks like none my Mac, Ubuntu, or Debian system is infected.
Funny thing is that I don't even have any anti-virus software installed on any of them. Just the usual software that's designed to not automatically run any code from the outside without getting my permission.
I wonder what sort of systems are getting infected. Anyone have any idea?
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
btw thats not 'the devil' (which has negative connotations with some crazy cults) it is 'a daemon', in particular the 'BSD Daemon'. Perhaps you knew this already but were just being inflammatory?