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Google to alert users infected with DNSChanger

article published on 24 May, 2012

Google hopes to warn 500,000 within a week. DNSChanger is malware that infected millions of computers around the world. As its name suggests, it changed the DNS settings on a users' computer to use malicious DNS servers instead of what they'd normally use. It also could change the DNS settings of a router or wireless access point if it was using the default user and password as a login ... [ read the full article ]

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dEwMe
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_ 		24. May 2012 @ 12:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
One downside here is many users likely will see this and assume it's another phony virus scam add we see all over the place. That was my first reaction seeing the picture here.
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Just my $0.02,

dEwMe
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cart0181
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_ 		24. May 2012 @ 14:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by dEwMe:
 One downside here is many users likely will see this and assume it's another phony virus scam add we see all over the place. That was my first reaction seeing the picture here.
Either way, it still gets the message across, now doesn't it? Google doesn't have banners on the top of their main page. People know this.
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ballybo
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_ 		27. May 2012 @ 08:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks for the info. how much will it cost if I'm infected?
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ChappyTTV
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_ 		29. May 2012 @ 23:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by ballybo:
 Thanks for the info. how much will it cost if I'm infected?
If you pay for a fix for this, you are being scammed again.
There are always free fixes for these kind of things on security web sites like MalwareBytes and well known tech help sites.

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ChappyTTV
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_ 		29. May 2012 @ 23:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by dEwMe:
 One downside here is many users likely will see this and assume it's another phony virus scam add we see all over the place. That was my first reaction seeing the picture here.
I thought the exact same thing...if I had not known about this beforehand, I probably would have closed the app and done a scan.
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