Google reaches out to owners of machines infected with DNSChanger malware

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Today Google announced it would be leading a campaign to notify users whose PCs were infected by the DNSChanger malware. The malware was part of a scam that came to light last November when the U.S. Department of Justice accused seven Estonian and Russian men of orchestrating several different kinds of Internet fraud schemes. Users were infected with DNSChanger after they clicked malicious links or downloaded tainted software.

The malware sent infected computers to DNS servers that redirected millions of victims to websites they had never intended to visit.

http://arstechnica.com/security/201...of-machines-infected-with-dnschanger-malware/

 

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[h=1]Google will warn users infected with DNSChanger[/h]

Hundreds of thousands of computers will soon risk to lose the Internet connection because of the unpleasant aftermaths of an already disbanded on-line threat known as DNSChanger. But Google will try to prevent the massive connection cut-off warning the infected systems’ owners before it is too late.

DNSChanger is a malware that tinkers with the standard DNS settings of the PC Internet connection to redirect traffic to malicious sites: before being put to rest thanks to an international effort on November 2011, the malicious code managed to infect something like more than 4 million computers worldwide.

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