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Tool: DNS Check #DNSChanger

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Jun

2012

An Estonian company called Rove Digital was busted last November. Why? Because it was a front for the ad-fraud DNSChanger botnet. And ever since November, the USA’s FBI has been responsible for the substitute DNS servers designed to keep compromised computers from being disconnected (and causing support call chaos).Back in March, we wrote about the […]

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DNSChanger ‘temporary’ DNS servers going dark soon – is your computer really fixed?

01

Jun

2012

DNSChanger, a piece of malware that re-routed vast swaths of Internet traffic through rogue DNS servers after users became infected, was shut down by the FBI late last year. But since simply shutting down the servers altogether would’ve ‘broken’ many hundreds of thousands of computers still infected – rendering it difficult for them to get […]

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DNSChanger FAQ

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May

2012

What is DNSChanger? DNSChanger, also known as Alureon, is a high profile piece of Malware that modifies the DNS settings on the victim PC to divert Internet traffic to malicious web sites. The Malware also acts as a robot or “Bot” for short and can be organized into a BotNet and controlled from a remote […]

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