OpenDNS Protects Against the Conficker Worm  Yesterday we
offered up a guide to protecting your Windows PC from the
Conficker worm, set to start doing ... something today. Free net
service OpenDNS is another option for anyone concerned about
today's not-so-funny happening.  Why? OpenDNS has been tracking
the Conficker worm and blocking the sites it keeps reaching out
to for its nefarious further instructions. As OpenDNS' David
Ulevitch puts it:  The latest variant of Conficker is now
churning through 50,000 domains per day in an attempt to thwart
blocking attempts. Consider this: at any given time we have
filters that hold well over 1,000,000 domains (when you combine
our phishing and domain tagging filters). 50,000 domains a day
isn't going to rock the boat.  In other words, even if Conficker
has made it onto your PC, or a PC somewhere in your
house/office, OpenDNS will likely stop the worm from contacting
the site that would tell it what to do.  If you're still using
your Road Runner/Comcast/Verizon DNS pre