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[xyberviri]

People are stupid and will take all you give them, they should have never setup temporary servers that continue to let people use the internet though their broken pc.

no wonder the world is becoming a hypoallergenic place where nothing bad is suppose to happen.

[phil8192]

How are we to know that the DNS Changer Check-Up Site is safe and won't mess with our computers should we connect to it?

I agree with xyberviri. One so ignorant to run a computer for months or years while it is infected with a Trojan should not be allowed on the Internet in the first place, and summarily disconnecting them is appropriate, even if they are running a business.

[BenOettel]

sorry bro no such thing as a personal doomsday, especially if it's only the internet. lol I would find it a better resolution to have the servers redirect them to an auto removal tool site, that would make more sense as all the traffic is coming from infected machines.

[JimH443]

xyberviri, on 23 April 2012 - 09:54 AM, said:

People are stupid and will take all you give them, they should have never setup temporary servers that continue to let people use the internet though their broken pc.

no wonder the world is becoming a hypoallergenic place where nothing bad is suppose to happen.

I also agree, and if asked, would recommend that these servers be shut down for two days prior to the final take down. I can believe that there are people out there who have no idea they're infected. The two day shut down would open their eyes to this fact (and the seriousness of it), and still give them an opportunity to fix it when the temporary servers are turned back on.

[Tinman1957]

Don't be so quick to judge all these "stupid" people that got infected. The FBI stated “There was a level of complexity here that we haven’t seen before”, and a lot of anti-virus/anti-malware programs weren't detecting it. The malware also blocked users from updating most installed anti-virus software, or receiving operating system patch updates, so how could this have been the persons/businesses fault?
Personally I have Comodo Firewall and use Comodo's DNS servers to keep my system even safer.

[Evildave]

Yep. A LOT of anti-malware software never detected it. In fact, if 'antivirus' worked, shouldn't any widespread infection be 'impossible'?

As in, every time the howler monkeys shriek about 'Antivirus! Antivirus! Antivirus!', they only show that they don't understand that it's not very effective. It just consumes money and system resources for nothing, especially against 'new' infections.

Here's your magic tiger/bear/aligator/etc. repellent rock! $59.99 a year! Hurry up before we raise the cost even more! Be 'protected'!

While it's true that antivirus conveys some additional protection from infection, like a condom, it doesn't protect you from much if you kiss that scabby ho', named 'Ms. Internet'.

[ZipFolder]

Doomsday? Yo, you are screaming God's Coming. Internet security only has doomsday if the users are being foolish about security or other things. If you are a smart user, you will use and do smart things on the internet and keep of with security for your pc or laptop. Can't wait for God's Coming! There will be no need for internet security.

[ShaunPhilpot]

Take the dooms talk and fear war tactics some place else

This is simple , Evolve or die , Companies keep hiring book learned dumbasses this cycle will keep going .

The net will not die , no different now then , years ago . more media pointed at it now days , what anon has been doing is nothing new lol.

i say again evolve or die . Learn from it move along

The flaws in java has been spoken about for ages .. Yet again nothin new on flashback lol .. Exploited an old flaw ..

[ShaunPhilpot]

this is simply the sky is smurfing the sky is smurfing lol

they use this kinda crap and media so things like sopa get signed .!

Yawn !

[willwalker]

Since 2008 my computers have been infected with, what I have referred to as a hacker, but may have been something akin to this DNS Changer. This has cost me several thousand dollars to no avail, so I have six computers shut down and I can no longer use. Any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate any assistance to a conclusion.

[JimH443]

willwalker, on 17 May 2012 - 04:26 AM, said:

Since 2008 my computers have been infected with, what I have referred to as a hacker, but may have been something akin to this DNS Changer. This has cost me several thousand dollars to no avail, so I have six computers shut down and I can no longer use. Any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate any assistance to a conclusion.

A hacker is a person - someone who hacks into a system. It's not something that infects.

Without eamining your systems, there's no way to determine what the problem is - there are just too many possibilities.

[Gatewaygeek]

Evildave, on 24 April 2012 - 05:26 PM, said:

Yep. A LOT of anti-malware software never detected it. In fact, if 'antivirus' worked, shouldn't any widespread infection be 'impossible'?

As in, every time the howler monkeys shriek about 'Antivirus! Antivirus! Antivirus!', they only show that they don't understand that it's not very effective. It just consumes money and system resources for nothing, especially against 'new' infections.

Here's your magic tiger/bear/aligator/etc. repellent rock! $59.99 a year! Hurry up before we raise the cost even more! Be 'protected'!

While it's true that antivirus conveys some additional protection from infection, like a condom, it doesn't protect you from much if you kiss that scabby ho', named 'Ms. Internet'.

The best and the most effective "antivirus" is an EDUCATED and CAUTIOUS user who isn't trigger happy about everything that pops up. But then again, sometimes even the best of us can be fooled. I personally use Avast (because it is lite enough to run on a Windows 2000 machine with a Pentium 3 system) as well as using OpenDNS DNS servers as a preventative measure. My router has DD-WRT installed with a firewall on it [Got six computers to protect, two of which the users refuse to put any type of protection on them (both macs)].

[qaz111111]

This doomsday scenario smell fishy to me. If I want to run the DNSchanger then I should be able to. To have the FBI tell me to go to their sit to have them snoop through my computer smells like a fear campaign that is a smoke screen to have me give them access... and to do what at that point? That is the real fear here.