Good news: The patch for this issue came out from Microsoft in October last year. If you had automatic updates enabled at that time, you were probably already not vulnerable.
Not so good news: I can confirm that it is set to become more active again on April 1st. On that day, if you are infected, you may notice your machine is very slow for the first six hours or so.
Worse news: Conficker is suspected to be building the largest "botnet" of computers to date. These computers are typically used to perform massive spam campaigns, launder money, host illegal or thieving web sites, or even take down computer systems of nation states (such as Estonia).
What you can do now:
1) Read the Wikipedia article on Conficker, which provides a lot of good information,
2) Download the BitDefender Conficker removal tool from http://bdtools.net/ and check/clean your computer.
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