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With all the media hype about conficker, I thought you might like a good collection of trustworthy resources. Beware of websites that have recently registered as “conficker help.” In fact, just avoid them all together. There’s also reports of malicious software masquerading as detection and cleaning tools for Conficker-infected computers, as well as spam offering the same.

There’s no need to try and figure out what’s safe or real and what has more sinister plans in mind. The good folks at dshield.org have been keeping an updated list of third party information on conficker. Here you can find plenty of free conficker detection and removal tools, general information and the microsoft patch. That should help keep you updated, safe and informed.

I’ve also found out about one other real neat way of detecting it, but it’s for more advanced users, so I’m going to make a seperate post about it.

Here’s a couple more phishing scams I came across today. The first one is another paypal scam. Here’s a screen capture from my gmail account. As you can see by the big red box warning you that this is a scam. That was added by gmail and obviously isn’t in the original e-mail.

The second one is supposed to be from Wells Fargo. It tells you that you have to update your information and that you will only have limited access until you do so.

As always, never respond or click on any links in e-mails that ask you to update any banking or personnel information