[dba-Tech] Conficker Worm Test

Too clever! 

Rocky
 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:14 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Conficker Worm Test

Very simple.

Conficker blocks browsers from accessing a number of sites, including the
major AV ones.
The page just contains links to images on the AV vendors sites.   If you're
infected, 
Conficker will stop you from accessing them so you won't see the images.



On 16 Apr 2009 at 16:02, Rocky Smolin wrote:

> Cool.  How does it work?
> 
> Rocky
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart 
> McLachlan
> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:33 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Conficker Worm Test
> 
> ****Note - As at April 2009!!! If someone passes this on to you in at 
> some much later date, it's probably obsolete and you should delete 
> this email right now*****
> 
> Conficker is a piece of mailcious software that has infected a lot of 
> computers.
> 
> Here's a very simple test to check whether your computer is infected .
> Just go to
> 
> http://www.lexacorp.com.pg and click on the link at the bottom left
> 
> The way it works is simple. If you can see all 6 images at the top of 
> the test page, you are probably not infected with the worm.
> 
> If it looks like your machine is infected, disconnect it from the 
> Internet immediately. Go to another system that's not infected, and 
> get Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool.
> 
>  http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/
> 
> Run that on the infected system, and be sure the infection is removed 
> before you reconnect to the Net.
> 
> I hate chain emails and I never thought I'd ever say this but - feel 
> free to pass this one on to other people.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Stuart McLachlan
> 
> 
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