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To: jjotto
The gov’t HAS to be installing some kind of malware.

I'd love for some tech savvy Freeper to check this out.

But surely somebody has evaluated this?

I'm sure we'd have heard about it by now.

4 posted on 07/08/2012 8:33:26 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/blogs/dns-changer-much-ado-about-nothing-p-1308

Malware Monday: Much Ado About Nothing

...When authorities arrested the suspects last fall, they reported that more than 4 million computers had been infected by the malware. Today, Greene says, that number is about 250,000 worldwide and falling. As of June 11, DCWG identified fewer than 70,000 computers in the United States infected; by now, Greene says, that figure is much lower.

Think about it: Various estimates place the number of PCs worldwide at between 1 billion and 2 billion. That means the 250,000 or so still-infected computers represent fewer than 2-100ths of a percent (0.02 percent) of all PCs in the world. That’s about the number of PCs a botnet hunter commandeers in a single day, Greene says, adding: “It’s no big deal.”

Greene says there are more serious malware problems users should concern themselves with than DNS Changer, as the “bad guys” - who have an economic incentive to create more malicious viruses - stay three steps ahead of the “good guys” who try to combat them...


8 posted on 07/08/2012 8:46:55 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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