Detect MS08-067 Patch and Conficker Worm with eEye Utility

The biggest story of the day and will also be big news tomorrow is the Conficker worm, which is the latest worm that self-updates and makes it very hard to avoid. Researchers at eEye Digital Security have responded to this current threat and have developed a detection engine that will run a network scan to detect hosts that are vulnerable or compromised to Conficker.

The company has worked on measures to protect users and now organizations can download a free utility from eEye.

This utility has been built around the company’s Retina Network Security Scanner; the utility will detect if a host has been compromised by the Conficker Worm and malicious botnet, or if you do not have the MS08-067 Patch applied.

The Conficker worm only attacks PC systems that run on Windows XP and Vista, which utilizes a variety of attack vectors, it will then transmit and receive payloads, this includes portable media devices such as USB thumb drives and hard drives and software vulnerabilities like MS08-067. The Conficker worm can also spawn remote access backdoors and then attempt to download malware to infect the system further.

Download the Retina Utility from eEye

You can read our published news about the Conficker worm here.