Amazing...isn't it? -----Original Message----- From: GMoney [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 7:24 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Have you been hacked..you might want to check...
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Justin Scott <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Paul Vixie is an expert on DNS. I have not particularly checked > > this story, but I have seen it several times already in very > > reputable venues. I am not sure what seems far-fetched, but the DNS > > Changer scam is real and was mentioned several times in the outcry > > over SOPA. > > As someone who ran a DNS services company for over a decade and > continues to follow DNS very closely, I can second that Paul is > considered a hero/expert in the DNS community and was called in to set > up DNS resolvers so that when the scammer's name servers were taken > down it would continue to transparently work for all those infected. > They have been wanting to take those offline but there are still > hundreds of thousands of people who's computers are still set by the > malware to use those resolvers. They will be coming offline soon, > however, so there has been a big push to get those infected systems > fixed to minimize the support load on ISPs when tens of thousands of > customers suddenly call to report their Internet isn't working > anymore. > Is it just me, or did the Feds actually do good by the citizens in this case???? Now it's time for citizens to own a little responsibility and get their shit cleaned up. Props to the FBI for setting up these temp servers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:350240 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
