[evilfantasy]

In the run up to April 1st, McAfee is offering a special build of its stand-alone cleaning tool christened Stinger which will be updated on a daily basis to include any undetected Conficker variants from the wild.

Please ensure that your copy of Microsoft Windows is patched and security software is fully up to date to ensure that April 1st 2009, is a day like any other day!

McAfee AVERT Stinger Conficker

How to use McAfee Stinger

[Blackmirror]

Thanks Kevin
a nasty little critter
the conflicker not you

[Sup2a]

mmm MAY be an interesting few days for some people, no doubt in the malware removal section too...

[Gunner]

Sort of reminds me of Y2K thing. We'll see.

[evilfantasy]

Sophos released their version also.

Conficker Clean-up Tool - Free Conficker detection and removal

Alternate link. |MG| Sophos Conficker Clean-up Tool 1.3

[Sup2a]

...*taps fingers* nothing yet... found this somewhat detailed article on it http://www.honeynet.org/files/KYE-Conficker.pdf
for now just waiting till' the planes fall out of the sky...