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OpenDNS To Block and Monitor Conficker Worm
Linker3000 writes "According to The Register, OpenDNS plans to introduce an new service that will prevent PCs infected with the Conficker (aka Downadup) malware from contacting its control servers, and will also make it easy for admins to know if even a single machine under their control has been infected by Conficker: 'Starting Monday, any networks with PCs that try to connect to the Conficker addresses will be flagged on an admin's private statistics page. The service is available for free to both businesses and home users.' With the amount of trouble this worm has caused, perhaps this is a good time to take a look at OpenDNS if you haven't done so already."
They are "Open" in sense of DNS terminology. Open DNS is one of the significant misconfiguration of an ordinary DNS server can have but their business works by opening it to planet and add extra features to decades old service without breaking standards.
Someone figures to make money from a decades old protocol using web technologies and without breaking privacy.
Remember the feedback that non college educated guy got when he literally saved the planet from Internet breakdown? That DNS guy? It is the similar feedback. Jelousy.