Is your DNS being high-jacked?

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Is your DNS being high-jacked?

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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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http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/no ... are_110911" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Test your own machine quickly at http://www.dns-ok.us" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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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;
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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;
Thanks, Argus.
I see John beat me to it. I didn't see his post. Getting careless I suppose?
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No, not at all. I linked to the other thread since there might be some other links there, not mentioned here, as a complement.
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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!
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