Both the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the non-profit Honeynet Project have developed methods for determining which PCs on a network are infected by Conficker, which makes the work of scanning a system of networked PCs a lot quicker and easier. The DHS announced that the department’s United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) created the tool, which has been available to federal and state partners via the Government Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (GFIRST) Portal, and