[ETS/PARC List] FW: FBI DNS Changer malware advisory.

[Don WILSON]

 From: marvbrons at verizon.net
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Subject: Fw: FBI DNS Changer malware advisory.
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:16:25 -0400








 

 
Subject: FBI DNS Changer malware advisory.

FYI -  
Domain Name System or Server (DNS)  is a 
service your PC automatically goes to to find the Internet numerical address 
corresponding to the http:// 
name location you're looking for.  Normally DNS is your Internet service 
provider.

PC users infected with a strain of malware called DNS 
Changer will face their own personal Internet doomsday in July unless 
they disinfect their computers, the FBI warns. 
Users have until July 9 to rid themselves of the DNS Changer 
malware, which can infect Windows PCs and Macs alike. After that, the 
FBI will throw a switch that prevents infected computers from accessing the 
Internet.

How can they do that? That's because the FBI now controls those malware DNS 
addresses.  When they shut them off July 9, your computer (if infected) 
will not connect to the internet as it will be trying to go to a non-existing 
address.
 http://www.pcworld.com/article/254279/fbi_steps_up_internet_doomsday_awareness_malware_campaign.html#tk.nl_dnx_h_crawl

You 
can also Google 'DNS' for more info.

--Ivy