Re: Conflicker/NMAP

["Greg T. Grimes" <greg.grimes () MSSTATE EDU>]

It's Conficker, not Conflicker.  It's also known as Downadup.  And as most
security researches have stated, it's not as big a threat as is being
portrayed in the media.  If your computers are patched and virus
definitions are up to date then you shouldn't have anything to worry
about.  Currently Conficker isn't our problem it's Trojan.Flush.M.  If you
haven't heard about this one, be on the look out for people using offsite
DNS.

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Consolvo, Corbett D wrote:

> I realize many folks may not want to answer this, but has anyone had
> many positives/infections with the released nmap scan for Conflicker?  So
> far we seem to be coming up clean and many other folks I've talked to or
> emailed with have come up clean as well.  I'm just concerned about the
> possibility of false negatives.  Of course, the problem may not be
> particularly wide-spread except in the eyes of some media outlets.
>
> Thanks,
> Corbett Consolvo
> Texas State University

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Greg T. Grimes
Senior Network Analyst
Information Technology Services
Mississippi State University
greg.grimes () msstate edu