Saturday, July 7, 2012

No Web for Hundreds of Thousands on Monday

technology review  via Instapundit

Starting that day, computers still infected with the notorious DNSChanger malware will be unable to connect to websites.
What to do about this?

Here's a procedure that should work for detecting infection.  At least it works on my computer.
  1. Go here, and it will test your computer.  If it passes, you may be ok.
  2. An alternative is to go to MS-DOS prompt and type ipconfig /all   The result will give you some DNS addresses to check.  
  3. To avoid typing in all those addresses in the test below, click in the upper left corner and, then click on edit, and then "select all" which will allow you to copy the text and then paste the addresses into a text file that you can create on the desktop.  Then, just copy and paste the DNS addresses in the text box on the FBI website here
That should work to determine if you are clean or not.  What you do afterward, you may have to do some research on that.  Since my computer is not infected, I have no way of vouching for a way to clean up your computer if it is infected.

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