Hundreds Of Thousands May Lose Internet In July

[Ktiger41]

One thing that bothers me about some of these hackers is they don't really do anything productive. Taking down peoples' computers for what? It does not seem that fun to me. I guess if they had a real end goal that meant something I could understand.

They made $14 million dollars by redirecting you to ads. End goal for them sounds like getting mad stacks of cash.

[jmurjeff]

They made $14 million dollars by redirecting you to ads. End goal for them sounds like getting mad stacks of cash.

Had to read the thread again. I guess that sounds like a good goal on their end. What did the ads do that they were needed for the infected users to connect online?

[darkcloud]

So here is what happened:
Some hackers set up a DNS Server, programmed some malware that changes the DNS settings to use their server. Instead to rediricting you to the site you wanted to visit they directed you to their adds. Now the FBI got them and kept the servers running like a normal DNS Server. The only difference is that instead of redirecting you to the normal green page. This DNS redirects you to one that tells you that you are still infected.

Here is what I don't understand: Why don't they redirect people using the server to the warning page for everything they type in for the last months before they shut the servers down? With that people that missed the news will get the info regardless. If they would have done this from the beginning they would have saved a lot of money.

[Ragnar]

But then they'd have to tell the public they can change their DNS servers. That'd dissipate some of the basic power the FBI internet police have secured. So they just stalled and wasted time/money on the problem

[MaslowK]

i'm on a mac, this doesnt apply to me

im on linux as well so all i got to say is bring it on

lul @ osx & linux don't get viruses/have no exploits. http://www.exploit-db.com/shellcode/

On that note good browsing habits = the correct answer to avoiding infections regardless of what OS you happen to use.

[Shane]

First time a virus came onto my PC, my father decided to use System Restore, thus deleting everything I had installed on that computer - Grandia II, Toribash and a lot more. And what's more, my father didn't seem to care that Age of Empires was deleted.
As a result, I had to reinstall everything, and make restore points.
So anti-virus programs aren't always useful enough.

[Yoshi of Earth]

For some reason I can't shake the feeling that this is fake. I haven't seen anything about this on the news. Unless I missed it. Regardless, is this really legit or not?

[Mohit]

Nothing ever happened.

[GunSlinger Boy]

needs a lock here, old news and has been fixed

[Mohit]

needs a lock here, old news and has been fixed

There's too much threads that needs a lock.

[treos]

pointlessly necro'd