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US ISPs Continue To Support DNSChanger Redirection Servers

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-had-one-job dept.

darthcamaro writes "On Monday of this week, the primary servers that kept those infected with the DNSChanger malware were taken offline. It's a story that sparked lots of media hype with people claiming that hundreds of thousands of people could lose their Internet access. As it turns out, major U.S. ISPs including Verizon, Cox, AT&T and CenturyLink all kept their own DNSChanger servers online, protecting any users from losing their access."

3 of 87 comments (clear)

  1. Why? by Technoodle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a fail. The problem will not go away if we keep coddling people that have infected machines.

  2. Re:What's the big deal? by nurb432 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The big deal is they are keeping infected computers online.

    These should have been cut off day one, with a message 'call your isp' and allow NO other traffic to protect the users data.

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  3. Re:Oh for the love of god by bmo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Knock them off the internet already so they know they have a problem. DNSChanger is probably not the only issue they have.

    This. I have *never* seen a compromised system with just one piece of badware. These people are probably running around with dozens, if not hundreds of pieces of evil in their machines.

    Knocking them off the net would be doing them a favour.

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    BMO