[aklug] DNSChanger virus

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I've seen a few articles mention this, and I thought it was rather
interesting:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57418276-83/web-could-vanish-for-hordes-of-people-in-july-fbi-warns/?tag=txt;title

Basically, there is a virus that has been out in the wild for a few
years, which has infected a million or so computers, and which altered
the DNS system on each computer so that it uses a set of rogue DNS
servers that was set up by a crime ring. The FBI managed to crack down
on the criminals and seize the DNS servers, but they have kept the
servers running anyway, because there are still a few hundred thousand
computers out there that still that depend on them.

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frigidcode.com
indicium.us
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Received on Sun Apr 22 22:29:21 2012