Six Estonian nationals have been arrested and charged with running a sophisticated Internet fraud ring that infected millions of computers worldwide with a virus and enabled the thieves to manipulate the multi-billion-dollar Internet advertising industry. Users of infected machines were unaware that their computers had been compromised—or that the malicious software rendered their machines vulnerable to a host of other viruses.
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Is your DNS being high-jacked?
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- PlatinumLounger
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Is your DNS being high-jacked?
BOB
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If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.
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- GoldLounger
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Re: Is your DNS being high-jacked?
See also this thread: This week's security panic.
For our Australian friends:
http://www.dns-ok.gov.au/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Or for example German:
http://dns-ok.de/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
There’s more info, now, also at DCWG, the DNS Changer Working Group.
http://www.dcwg.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
For our Australian friends:
http://www.dns-ok.gov.au/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Or for example German:
http://dns-ok.de/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
There’s more info, now, also at DCWG, the DNS Changer Working Group.
http://www.dcwg.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Byelingual When you speak two languages but start losing vocabulary in both of them.
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- PlatinumLounger
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Re: Is your DNS being high-jacked?
Thanks, Argus.Argus wrote:See also this thread: This week's security panic.
For our Australian friends:
http://www.dns-ok.gov.au/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Or for example German:
http://dns-ok.de/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
There’s more info, now, also at DCWG, the DNS Changer Working Group.
http://www.dcwg.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I see John beat me to it. I didn't see his post. Getting careless I suppose?
BOB
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If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.
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If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.
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- GoldLounger
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Re: Is your DNS being high-jacked?
No, not at all. I linked to the other thread since there might be some other links there, not mentioned here, as a complement.
Byelingual When you speak two languages but start losing vocabulary in both of them.
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- UraniumLounger
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Re: Is your DNS being high-jacked?
For a moment there I thought I had discovered a genetic link to Kermit the Frog.
Then I read more carefully and noticed that it said my DNS - not my DNA - was all GREEN.
It's not easy, you know!
Then I read more carefully and noticed that it said my DNS - not my DNA - was all GREEN.
It's not easy, you know!
Bob's yer Uncle
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