FBI shut down of NS's infected with the DNSChanger Trojan

[Eric Lyon]

Scary and interesting all the same time. Time to check Name Servers everyone.

You’ll be shocked, you’ll be awed and, hopefully, you’ll be under whelmed.

What if a Trojan horse automatically redirected all of our Internet addresses to rogue sites? It already happened in 4 million computers worldwide, and it is continuing.

On July 9, the FBI will order a shutdown of all domain name servers in the United States that are infected with the DNSChanger Trojan Horse. Providers must re-deploy clean servers while they thoroughly clean the DNSChanger from their systems.

And, before that, the feds encourage all computer users to check their personal systems for the Trojan.

Read full article here

 

[lennco]

Thanks for the heads up Eric.

If its not one damn thing its another
First I had to worry about Sedo redirecting my parked pages to websites and now a virus may change my DNS settings?
Geeezz...

 

[.X.]

Thanks Eric

The people creating such a mess on servers and sites, should be drowned, Slooowly

 

[Blake]

Thanks for the notice Eric....checked out clean but will make sure all my sites/servers are as well...Agree slow and painful torture is the key

Blake