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Offline AngleWyrm

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DNS malware hack reported by FBI
« on: Apr 22, 2012, 01:41:20 AM »
Yahoo news report
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The FBI is encouraging users to visit a website run by its security partner, http://www.dcwg.org , that will inform them whether they're infected and explain how to fix the problem. After July 9, infected users won't be able to connect to the Internet.

Site that you can use to check for infection
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Re: DNS malware hack reported by FBI
« Reply #1 on: Apr 22, 2012, 02:08:23 AM »
Why that doesn't sound suspicious at all.
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Re: DNS malware hack reported by FBI
« Reply #2 on: Apr 22, 2012, 07:13:00 AM »
Looks Legit.
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Re: DNS malware hack reported by FBI
« Reply #3 on: Apr 22, 2012, 04:35:35 PM »
It's legit. Here are another couple of articles about it:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/03/28/1558258/taking-down-dnschanger-a-first-person-account

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/05/1355259/half-of-fortune-500s-us-agencies-still-infected-with-dnschanger-trojan

It's been in the tech news for the past few weeks. It's really bizarre and has probably made the problem much worse than if the FBI had just let infected people's computers fail. Then they would have been forced to become educated about how to fix the problem and maybe would have taken steps to be safer in the future.
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