Cleaning Conficker: Keeping Your Network Safe from Windows Worm

Much has been written about the Conficker worm, also called Downadup, in recent days. eWEEK has pulled together some general advice for protecting your systems from infection and remediating them should the worm slither by your defenses.
– With infections from the Conficker worm still spreading, the good
news is that there are ways to guard against it and clean your machine
if you are infected.
The saga that is the Conficker worm began in earnest in November,
when Microsoft reported a variant of the worm targeted a flaw in the
Wi…