On Sunday, April 22, 2012, Christopher Howard elucidated thus:
> 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-hor
> des-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.
If the systems had this malware running, why couldn't they attack these
same machines with a "good" virus to fix the problem? :)
j
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