DNSChanger Shut-Down Means Internet Blackout Coming For Hundreds of Thousands

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DNSChanger Shut-Down Means Internet Blackout Coming For Hundreds of Thousands

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 7, 2012 @03:02PM from the are-you-on-the-list dept.

Since you're reading this here, you're probably already aware that in the early hours of Monday, lots of DNS calls are going to fail as the FBI turns off servers from which Windows machines infected with DNSChanger have been served. New submitter SuperCharlie adds a reminder of the impending shutdown, and adds: "The FBI has a step-by-step method for you to see if you are infected in this PDF document, or you can go to dcwg.org for an automated check if you are so inclined."

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Re:Or... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-07 15:08 · Score: 4, Informative

Zzzz, when will the ignorant Apple trolls get bored of these things?
Re:Or... by Johnny+O · 2012-07-07 15:12 · Score: 5, Informative

http://techland.time.com/2012/04/23/dnschanger-fbi-warns-infected-computers-will-lose-web-email-access-in-july/
"DNSChanger targets Windows or Mac systems (Linux, iOS and Android users are in the clear) by manipulating Domain Name Servers (DNS), which translate syntax-based URLs into IP addresses. "
Re:Or... by qwertphobia · 2012-07-07 15:20 · Score: 5, Informative

What was ignorant about my comment?
It is fact that DNSChanger does not infect OSX. It doesn't infect iOS. It doesn't infect Linux, or BSD, or Amiga, or Android, or BeOS, or Plan 9, or Chromium, or OS2, or Solaris, or EMACS. I happen to be running one of the many OSs it does not infect.
Seriously? https://www.google.com/search?q=dnschanger+osx

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Security Awareness Fail by zedrdave · 2012-07-07 15:33 · Score: 5, Informative

"dcwg.org"? seriously?

Let me get this straight: the FBI is recommending people go to a nondescript .org website to run a security check on their computer?

Can I next invite them to go to submit their information at fswrxt.net to check that their credit card wasn't hacked?
Re:Or... by wkcole · 2012-07-07 15:35 · Score: 5, Informative

Simply false. DNSChanger can infect Windows, MacOS, and many consumer-grade routers that provide DNS or DHCP.
What's special about MacOS infections is that the user has to be an ignorant pollyanna to get infected. If I were you, I'd check my DNS config.
dupes and typos -- Timothy in fine form by 1u3hr · 2012-07-07 16:14 · Score: 4, Informative

"DSNChanger Shut-Down Means Internet Blackout Coming For Hundreds of Thousands"
"DSNChanger"?
And this is yet another dupe of this tedious "story", last just two days ago.

FBI To Shut Down DNSChanger Servers Monday -- But Should It Cut Off 300k PCs?
Posted by Soulskill on Thu Jul 05, '12 04:18 AM
Interesting statistics by mcbridematt · 2012-07-07 16:46 · Score: 4, Informative
DNSChanger infections by AS
Top infected ISPs:
- Comcast / AS7922 - 10211 unique IPs
- BSNL (India) / AS9829 - 13818 unique IPs
- France Telecom / AS3215 - 5075 unique IPs
source
Re:DSNChanger??? by houghi · 2012-07-07 19:45 · Score: 2, Informative

Translation: cracking (hacking for the media) is 95% social engineering. Always was. Always has been.

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Re:DSNChanger??? by Culture20 · 2012-07-07 22:29 · Score: 4, Informative

No one sees the ".exe" extention except those of us who turn extension-hiding off. IzNotBugIzVideo.exe uses a video icon, and the same action (double clicking) plays videos and runs executables.