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More time to clean up the DNSChanger malware

09

Mar

2012

We wrote about the DNSChanger malware and about the Avira tool which detects if your computer’s DNS settings were altered and restores the defaults in case they were changed by the malware. The FBI initially announced that the servers which were replacing the malicious ones will be shut down on March 8, 2012. This is […]

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DNSChanger – Cleaning Up 4 Million Infected Hosts

02

Mar

2012

The internet is full of infected hosts. Let’s just make a conservative guesstimate that there are more than 40 million infected victim hosts and malware serving “hosts” connected to the internet at any one time, including both traditional computing devices, network devices and smartphones. That’s a lot of resources churning out cybercrime, viruses, worms, exploits, […]

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Avira DNS-Repair-Tool released

23

Jan

2012

You must have heard already about the already “famous” malware DNSChanger which manipulates the DNS settings of the computer in order to silently direct the users to malicious websites. FBI and others took action against this malware and in November 2011 have managed to break the botnet. According to FBI, more than 4 million computers […]

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