I am sure most if not all of you have heard of the Conficker virus that is supposed to unleash holy hell in the computing world on 4/1/2009.  It's the biggest internet/virus scare since Y2K.  Anywhoo, supposedly there is no way to scan for the virus....until now.

From the Hack-a-day article:
http://hackaday.com/2009/03/30/containing-conficker/

With all the noise about Conficker turning your computer into liquid hot magma on April 1st, there’s actually some positive news. Researchers from the HoneyNet Project have been following the worm since infections started in late 2008. They recently discovered an easy way to identify infected systems remotely.

There is a tool available that will scan a remote system via it's IP or a range of IP's and will report whether or not the system shows signs of an infection.  If you even remotely think you may have an infection, it's worth it to run this scan!

For the file and some basic instructions:
http://www.doxpara.com/?p=1291

or for just the file:
http://www.doxpara.com/scs.zip

hmmm interesting.

thank you for the heads up sir.

now my question is will my norton be able to find and eliminate this thing if I have it?

Oh, if anyone is interested: here is a whitepaper on the deconstruction and detection of Conficker.

http://www.honeynet.org/files/KYE-Conficker.pdf

I am clean! Also I am wondering if NOD32 can detect and eliminate it as well.. It should though NOD32 is leet.

You'll have to check NOD32's website to see if they have a definition update that can check for this.

Half hour into April 1st...

all quiet on the eastern front. =]]