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.

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