On 04/26/2012 11:44 AM, Andrew Latham wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Jeroen van Aart<jer...@mompl.net> wrote:
Excuse the horrible subject :-)
Anyone have anything insightful to say about it? Is it just lots of fuss
about nothing or is it an actual substantial problem?
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/november/malware_110911
"Update on March 12, 2012: To assist victims affected by the DNSChanger
malicious software, the FBI obtained a court order authorizing the Internet
Systems Consortium (ISC) to deploy and maintain temporary clean DNS servers.
This solution is temporary, providing additional time for victims to clean
affected computers and restore their normal DNS settings. The clean DNS
servers will be turned off on July 9, 2012, and computers still impacted by
DNSChanger may lose Internet connectivity at that time."
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Yes its a major problem for the users unknowingly infected. To them
it will look like their Internet connection is down. Expect ISPs to
field lots of support calls.
Based on conversations on this list a month or so ago, ISPs were
contacted with details of which of their IPs had compromised boxes
behind them, but it seems the consensus is that ISP were going to just
wait for users to phone support when it broke rather than be proactive
about it.
Paul
