Malware unleashed on Monday?
Malware may knock thousands off Internet on Monday - Yahoo! News
Someone called me and asked me about this today. I do not recall hearing anything about this and couldn't find it referenced in here or any of my tech sites.
The FBI has a site setup to scan your computer for it. Part of me would rather take my chances with the malware though.
Someone called me and asked me about this today. I do not recall hearing anything about this and couldn't find it referenced in here or any of my tech sites.
The FBI has a site setup to scan your computer for it. Part of me would rather take my chances with the malware though.
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Roguetadhg
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If something happens, I'll just nuke it and pave over.In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
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Slowhand
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This has been popping up in the news over the last few months. It's an attempt to snuff out a piece of malware that was floating around for a long time that pointed infected machines to a particular set of DNS servers. The FBI took control of the spoofed servers and are going to be shutting them down. Anyone still infected by that malware will no longer be able to find those servers and will have to clean up their machines before being able to access the Internet again.
Basically, expect a call from your Comet-Cursor-loving grandma on Monday in a panic, wondering why her computer isn't working.
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Roguetadhg
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Hah. Mouse tails!
I remember sitting around watching my computer get dragged mercilessly to the ground with the tail.In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
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MentholMoose
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The malware was DNSChanger and as the name implies, it configured infected PCs to use DNS servers controlled by the malware authors. Last year they got busted by the FBI who replaced the DNS servers with good ones, so name resolution would continue to work on infected PCs. So now the problem is the FBI needs to shut down those servers, and a lot of people haven't fixed their PC yet. It is an interesting situation.
F-Secure has an article and poll:
Should the FBI be reauthorized to continue DNSChanger servers? - F-Secure Weblog : News from the LabMentholMoose
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paulgswanson
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I love how their answer is when you go to select sites(that agreed to help fix it) it says:
"You are infected Click here to fix"
Isn't that how most of them got screwed up in the first place?http://paulswansonblog.wordpress.com/
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JDMurray
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Google has been working to identify the misconfigured hosts to their owners. I haven't seen any updated stats on how many machines are still hitting those DNS addresses. I'll guess that 99.9% of the remaining hosts are home-based client systems and not critical servers.
DNSChanger: Zlob trojan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
DNSChanger victims to lose internet on Monday - The H Security: News and Features -
MentholMoose
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The F-Secure link has stats from June 11. They say 300,000 machines still use those DNS servers.MentholMoose
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JDMurray
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phoeneous
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It would really suck if DNS Changer Check-Up - Clean gets compromised... -
phoeneous
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bigdogz
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It is just no longer active. The government cut the deadline on Monday ergo the name Malware Monday. -
JDMurray
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The last thing Malware/Adware/Spware producers want is people being kicked off the Internet.
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Zartanasaurus
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I guess anyone who doesn't post today is infected!
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