Friday, July 6, 2012

DNSChanger



Most everyone has heard about the FBI finally shutting down the DNS services which provide  service to 360k clients on the internet on July 9 2012. Most of the buzz surrounding the shutdown appears to be FUD. These are all clients which were infected by at least one Trojan and never was fixed since. What other patches are missing, vulnerabilities, outdated virus definitions or complete lack of antivirus exist on these hosts? What other malware are they possibly infected with or botnets are they part of? They have had enough time for cleanup, patching, configuration, updating antivirus, and even replacement of hardware rot.

If the owners of these systems cannot provide the least bit of due diligence on these hosts, then good riddance to all of them.