DNSChanger virus?

[Darren Dirt]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/07/06/tech-dns-changer-virus.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/06/29/f-dns-ending.html


http://www.dns-ok.ca/ = http://204.101.134.209/

? anyone heard about this before today?

[Mr. Analog]

Yep, been talked about for a while now on /.

[Darren Dirt]

Yep, been talked about for a while now on /.

Y U NO POST INFO HERE?

[Mr. Analog]

Because it's everywhere else?

[Mr. Analog]

Enjoyyyyyyyyyy:

http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=dnschanger

[Darren Dirt]

What I meant is, surprising that this tech/net story covered by mainstream media such as CBC came into the Darren brain not via the RW forum, but via my son calling me in a half-panic about how "the laptop at home isn't letting him visit internet therefore maybe it's got this DNS virus thingie and the FBI maybe cut it off from the web" basically. Since the "deadline" is July 9th I figured it's just the wireless router was being grumpy, I got him to plug the cablemodem's output cable directly into the laptop instead of the router and within 10 minutes he was on Google, likely relieved he could go visit the "dns-ok.ca" website now (I gave him the IP address initially, before I read the story in detail to know the "deadline" is a couple of days into the future).

So... yeah, what am I paying you technophiles for if you can't even bother to stir up fear and panic in me with stuff like this? I felt worried when I read about it on the INTERNET, I was like "did I miss something on RW about this? Does that mean it's nothing, or does that means it's horribly SOMETHING but a really recent threat?" then I had to do actual work on my own, reading stuff. 

[Mr. Analog]

Yuh huh...

[Tom]

Yeah. the story has been absolutely everywhere. For a while now. every few months it pops up again with people trying to delay the shutdown.

[Thorin]

So what was the actual cause of his lack of connection?

Delaying the shutdown will just allow the lazies to continue on with an infected machine.

[Lazybones]

Seriously DNS changer was on almost every tech news feed on and off for moths now.

I generally don't comment on virus / malware unless I personally encounter it and I haven't with DNS changer.

[Darren Dirt]

So what was the actual cause of his lack of connection?

I figured it's just the wireless router was being grumpy, I got him to plug the cablemodem's output cable directly into the laptop instead of the router and within 10 minutes he was on Google

[Thorin]

Yeah, but...  So he's taken over your internet connection?  Or did you plug the cable modem back into the router afterwards?

[Darren Dirt]

He said later he plugged back in and was working fine thru the wifi router as well, guess it just needed to be power cycled or something. Hardware issue/glitch, no infection, nothing to see there...