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Actually, I saw a news report yesterday that said the easiest way to detect whether you were infected was to go to microsoft.com -- if you couldn't reach that, you needed to run windows update to download the latest patches. Of course, if you can't reach microsoft, you cannot reach the windows update site.

If you are infected, you will not be able to download that kit from Symantec either. Symantec and Cert are putting together other URLs that will be able to be accessed. If you kept up to date with the Microsoft service packs, the bug that allowed conficker to be installed was patched in October.