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DNS Cache Poisoning Spreads Malware
Gamma_UCF writes "As of April 4, 2005 the SANS Internet Storm Center has raised their alert level to Yellow following a rash of active DNS poisonings. The infected DNS servers are re-directing users from popular sites such as Google or American Express to malware infecting advertising sites. According to the ISC presentation on the attack, it is believed to be linked to known spammers and malware distributors. The full presentation of information up until this point can be found here."
...perhaps a lead pipe would.
The people who perpetrate this kind of thing are nothing short of criminals and these people are not being persued and prosecuted as they should be.
They need the crap beat out of them is what they need. I wonder if/when it will happen though...
You dont have to have DNS poisonning to get redirected to another website or get altered search result.
Download my web search,kazaa,e-donkey and those crapy software that gives you all those neat(sucky) tools for searching the web,,,,just see what the results are when you search for something and it gives you weird asnwers...
OH wait Internet explorer's search engine does the same thing,,forgot to put it in unwanted crapy search engine.
Can your subconcious run linux?
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Don't know why you modded me flamebait. I misinterpreted the parent's comment. I thought the parent was implying that by using firefox, you won't be directed to fake sites (which isn't the case because the DNS server is the problem). After getting modded flamebait and reading some of the other comments, I now realize that the parent meant that by using firefox you greatly reduce your chances of getting malware from one of the redirected sites.