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Update to “DNSChanger – Cleaning Up 4 Million Infected Hosts”

25

Apr

2012

The Fbi’s “Operation Ghost Click” announcement in Nov 2011, involving the Rove Digital botnet delayed cleanup efforts that we previously discussed, continues to haunt both the internet networks and the mass media. A Forbes article and a Times article yesterday brought the apparition back to the front, with some claiming that the site offered by […]

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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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