[Las Vegas Dave]

http://www.dcwg.org/the-dns-changer-clean-dns-servers-will-be-turned-off-on-july-9-2012/

In order to assist victims affected by the DNSChanger malicious software the FBI obtained a court order authorizing Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) to deploy and maintain temporary Clean DNS servers. The solution is temporary and intended to buy time so that victims can clean affected computers and restore their normal DNS settings. For more information on DNSChanger visit the FBI’s Operation GhostClick Information Page.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Of possible interest to the ping lists..

[ishmac]

Ping

[Yo-Yo]

"I say let 'em crash."

[paudio]

Ping for later.

[PapaBear3625]

It would have been more useful to have the DNS machines route everything to a web site which displayed a page telling you that your machine is infected, and directing you to an Apple or MS site with instructions on how to fix it.

[samtheman]

Thanks for posting this. Very interesting. I just checked all my computers and got the green on all of them.

[SunkenCiv]

But FR will still be up. :’) Thanks LVD.

[muir_redwoods]

I’d rather work with MS or Apple (yes, I have both) to resolve a real problem, should it occur, than let the government scan my hard drives.

[RayChuang88]

This is why on my desktop and laptop computer, I have Norton Internet Security 2012 running, let it automatically update the malware definitions, and run a full system scan every Saturday morning. That way, I don't worry about potential malware attacks since NIS 2012 is extremely aggressive about monitoring all Internet access activity.

[mmichaels1970]

I’ll always take these advisories seriously after getting pummeled by Conficker on about 30 machines.

Might mean a little extra cash on the side though.

[Biff55]

For the Horde!

[GOPJ]

I don’t understand. Why doesn’t the FBI give the fix to Symantec, ZoneAlarm, Norton, Malwarebyes etc?

[GOPJ]

I don’t understand. Why doesn’t the FBI give the fix to Symantec, ZoneAlarm, Norton, Malwarebytes etc?

[Colonel_Flagg]

This isn’t the worst thing in the world. Given the likely Presidential matchup, I won’t have much interest in politics then.

[dfwgator]

"We're headin' out West, we heard there might be some Internet there, so we're headin' out Californee-way."