FBI delays shut down of malicious DNS servers.
The DNSChanger malware does what it says in its own title, it changes the DNS settings of infected computers to use malicious ones instead. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) took action against the malware last November, and originally set a March 8, 2012 deadline to shut down the DNS servers.
Unfortunately, four months later, ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by SmaryJerry: It is so easy to fall victim to malware, anti-viruse programs are useless. I recently realized I had a svchost.exe clone running in my background that was using up to 60% of my CPU and downloading/uploading to the internet constantly up to 5 MB/s. I reformatted and now svchost never takes more than 2% of my i7 CPU, and my internet browsing is noticeably faster. Not only that but it was redirecting my google search results so that whenever I clicked a link from the google search results it would go to a different site, which was usually some ad, maybe with some kind of DNS changer. This virus was undetected by current versions of AVG, Avira, or MSE. I only found out because I was sick of slow internet speeds and when I was looking at my network activity and svchost activity when I was performing no actions and I was like WTF. 10 system restarts and tons of debugging and antivirus tools later I decided screw I'll just reformat.
i noticed you only mentioned freeware so i can only tell you.. you get what you pay for.
