Now here’s a clever idea. Since the Conficker virus likes to block access to certain sites, a fellow named Joe Stewart from the Conficker Working Group created this slick little eye chart.
Each image is hot-linked from the represented site. Thus, if you have any images blocked, you might have Conficker – and from the diagnosis section at the bottom of the page you might even be able to determine which variant.
From the site:
Conficker (aka Downadup, Kido) is known to block access to over 100 anti-virus and security websites.
If you are blocked from loading the remote images in the first row of the top table above (AV/security sites) but not blocked from loading the remote images in the second row (websites of alternative operating systems) then your Windows PC may be infected by Conficker (or some other malicious software).
If you can see all six images in both rows of the top table, you are either not infected by Conficker, or you may be using a proxy server, in which case you will not be able to use this test to make an accurate determination, since Conficker will be unable to block you from viewing the AV/security sites.
[hat tip to slashdot]
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