Conficker Worm

Most of us in the industry are aware of and will have patched and protected ourselves from the Conficker Worm that is meant to go active today and potentially creating havoc on computer systems.

Everyone needs to make sure that they have all Microsoft Updates in place, and that their Anti-Virus systems are working and current.

Here in NZ a number of organisations got hit hard with the earlier outbreak. See:

• April Fools: Conficker virus set to spread
• Conficker's next move a mystery to researchers
• Infected ministry had no Microsoft support contract
  

A free tool to detect infected or vulnerable computers is available for system admins from prominent Computer Security firm Eeye

• http://www.eeye.com/html/downloads/other/ConfickerScanner.html