aronoiiel Posted April 22, 2012 Report Share Posted April 22, 2012 Wonder how true this is. . . http://www.nwcn.com/home/148339185.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austinville Posted April 22, 2012 Report Share Posted April 22, 2012 Great.............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aronoiiel Posted April 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2012 What tweaks me the wrong way with this is the fact the FBI is giving us a heads up I trust them and the rest of the government as much as I'd trust Kiana off leash at a squirrel convention >_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elyse Posted April 22, 2012 Report Share Posted April 22, 2012 *suspicious look* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranormal Wolf Posted April 22, 2012 Report Share Posted April 22, 2012 >.> ummmm hmmm Something seems fishy to me and it isn't my goldfish tank ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed #1 Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Not to sound like a paranoid nut or anything... But this does seem a bit 'off'. Maybe it has something to do with reading a story about a college kid in Miami facing 20 years of jail time for facebook posts. Yes that ought to be it. Realistically if I'm THAT worried about my computer being infected I'm more apt to back up the files I want to save (mostly pics), and then reformat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mydiamond Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Is it just me or does this story smell fishy? I didn't even cook fried fish today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueWolf Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 No, it's true. I'll try to explain the how and why to those not familiar with the IT as best as possible so bear with me please As you may now, there are many different kind of viruses, one of the type of virus are the ones who try to contact a central (command and control) server to get instructions about their next task. If your computer is infected with such kind of virus, it's now part of a so called 'botnet' and your entire computer can now be controlled by someone else. What the FBI did (a very long time ago) is took over these command and control servers so no new command could be sent to the infected computers. But why would you lose your internet access because of that? Well, you won't "really" lose your internet access, simply one of the (important) layers on top of it. Every address you type in your webbrowser like husky-owners, google.com and facebook.com HAVE to me converted to an address the computer understands. This is called the IP address. This converting is done for you using another public server on the internet, the DNS server. Which server that is is stored on your computer. What this botnet did was CHANGING these settings to use THEIR custom DNS server. The idea behind is that they could see and actually change which websites you where visiting. They injected advertisements in pages you visited which made them basically rich in no time. The FBI took over this DNS server too and decided to keep it running for a bit to let users fix their computer. They have decided to finally take it offline in 9th July. Without DNS you can't simply type in husky-owners.com as suddenly your computer has no idea how to convert it to an IP address, hence you'll get the message husky-owners.com does not exist or is not reachable, appearing like you have no internet access any more. The site (http://www.dcwg.org/) apparently has a way to detect if you're victim to this and an explanation how to fix it but the site's currently offline. But I'll be honest, if your computer is indeed infected it's probably better to do a complete reinstall anyway as you will probably have all kinds of other malware too by now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueWolf Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 http://www.dns-ok.be/ is another way to check if you're infected. I don't think this page actually changes along with your language but if you see a green tick you're good and if you see a red cross you have a big problem, lol. [Edit: http://www.dns-ok.us/is the international one] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loops Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 yay i got a green tick:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunc Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Your computer appears to be looking up IP addresses correctly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranormal Wolf Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 Got a big green so yay! Used the one Blue Wolf posted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormchaser09 Posted July 6, 2012 Report Share Posted July 6, 2012 I'm green too. Thank goodness cos I'm a bit clueless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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