direct url: http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/november/malware_110911/malware_110911
- note, again, that the official press release is a bit forgetful in describing which operating systems were affected... - I had to clean up a Windows machine with either this, or a similar nasty, last week. I tried pulling over a copy of Malwarebytes and... was redirected to a fake site which looked pretty damn close. Went there from another system and d/l'ed to a USB drive, ran it from there. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:30:49 -0800 From: PRIVACY Forum mailing list <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [ PRIVACY Forum ] International Cyber Ring That Infected Millions of Computers Dismantled International Cyber Ring That Infected Millions of Computers Dismantled http://j.mp/uQEFxU (FBI) "Beginning in 2007, the cyber ring used a class of malware called DNSChanger to infect approximately 4 million computers in more than 100 countries. There were about 500,000 infections in the U.S., including computers belonging to individuals, businesses, and government agencies such as NASA." - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list http://lists.vortex.com/mailman/listinfo/privacy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en.
