Matias Vangsnes

Internet, communication and the concept of open source

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Malware Monday: Were you infected by DNS changer? – Syracuse Post

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

Malware Monday has come, and the question remains: is it hype, or legitimate? If you haven’t heard, DNS Changer malware has infected hundreds of thousands of computers, though it is suspected that roughly 60,000 computers remain infected. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the malware: “Enabled the thieves to manipulate the multi-billion-dollar Internet advertising [...]

DNS Changer Virus Spells ‘Internet Doomsday’

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

The end is nigh, according to the FBI. “Internet doomsday” will strike us all on 9 July when the domain name service changer virus will disconnect many internet users from the web. PC users whose machines are infected with the DNS changer malware must disinfect their computer by 9 July, or they will be prevented [...]

Virus attack

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

THOUSANDS of people are about to lose access to the internet because of a DNS change virus. The virus, which is commonly, called a DNSChanger infects a users computer with a small virus that changes the computer DNS settings from using your Internet Service Providers DNS server to one set up by a group of [...]

Betty Lin-Fisher: Internet threat temporarily thwarted; here’s how to fix problem

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Isn’t it interesting that when there’s an urban legend — one of those stories that is completely false or only partially true — it spreads like wildfire via forwarded emails to everyone you know? But then sometimes information that is truthful doesn’t make the rounds as quickly? That’s what happened last week — and the [...]

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