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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Or... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or I can look at the Apple logo in the upper left of my screen and know I'm not infected.

    1. Re:Or... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      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.