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1 posted on 03/31/2009 1:48:07 AM PDT by Swordmaker
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Tell your Windows using friends that there may be a reliable Conficker Worm detector available just in the nick of time... PING!


Chase Out The Nasty Bug for Windows Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

2 posted on 03/31/2009 1:52:07 AM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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Dan Kaminsky, quoted in the article posted the following comment in the discussion following the article"

"Heh, this is Dan Kaminsky, from the story. Just to make something very clear:

Tillmann Werner and Felix Leder are the Honeynet Project researchers who actually noticed the behavioral shift introduced by Conficker. I've been doing work in fingerprinting lately, so I saw the opportunity to make it quite a bit easier to track down infected nodes in large organizations, but again, it was Tillmann and Felix who actually designed the fingerprinting logic that ultimately all these other organizations are integrating into their vulnerability scanning systems.

This is one small part of what's actually some very fine research about Conficker. This is their baby, I've just been helping it fly.


3 posted on 03/31/2009 1:54:35 AM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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IT Managers! Start Your Engines!


4 posted on 03/31/2009 1:55:59 AM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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That’s a relief...


5 posted on 03/31/2009 1:59:51 AM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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Already posted
6 posted on 03/31/2009 5:41:06 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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“Kaminsky said he then turned to help from Securosis researcher Rich Mogull, who on Saturday began mobilizing providers of network scanning products to add the Conficker definitions as soon as possible.”


Does this mean that avast antivirus, windows defender, malwarebytes antimalware, zonealarmpro, and superantispyware will all have the definitions by now and that scanning with those programs will include a search for these new bits?


9 posted on 03/31/2009 8:16:26 AM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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