There is one really simple and easy way to tell if your infected with the Conficker worm. The following webpage uses hotlinked images from the various antivirus supplier domains to give you sort of an eye chart. If you have images that do not load, there is a chance you’ve been infected. Try it out: http://www.joestewart.org/cfeyechart.html
Here is yet another story of maliciousness in cyberspace today. Turns out there is a bit of malware out there that will detect if you are trying to go to any review sites in a list, it redirects you to a site under the control of the botnet controllers. See the Ars article below for more details.
“Once redirected, users are served up with what appears to be an actual, legitimate review of Anti-Virus-1 from a reputable source. These reviews appear to be thinly-veiled rips of what has been written about actual anti-virus scanners—in BleepingComputer’s example image, you can see where the words “Norton Antivirus 2009” were presumably removed, with “AntiVirus2010″ substituted. This leads to some odd-looking ad copy—”Win Your Own AntiVirus2010TM2008″—but the swap doesn’t stand out nearly as much as we might like.”
via New malware attempts legitimacy by spreading phony reviews – Ars Technica.