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| FBI might shutdown the Internet on March 8 ok maby not the whole internet but to people who still have infected systems it may seem that way
»rt.com/usa/news/fbi-internet-ser···ers-409/
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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Mullica Hill, NJ | I would not want to be working an ISP call center that day. I bet the phones will fall off the hook with people complaining they where shut off for no reason. (Though my favorite is people who blamed the ISP for the virus claiming it came from the cable modem)
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then we use wires and start our own private networks.... |
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haha never thought of that. I have 3 friends that do cs work for isp's
i wonder if i should give them a heads up? na looking forward to the rants on fb lol
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Wouldn't be surprised if most end up adding fake routes so that DNS still works rather than dealing with customers. |
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Gonna love it!
From your link...
Who, exactly, will be affected? Security company IID (Internet Identity) believes that half of all Fortune 500 companies and more than two dozen major government entities in the US are still currently infected with the worm as of early 2012. Unless they take the proper steps to eradicate the Trojan from their systems, millions of users worldwide will be left hog-tied, helplessly attempting to navigate to nonexistent servers and, in effect, without the Web.
“At this rate, a lot of users are going to see their Internet break on March 8,” Rod Rasmussen, president and chief technology officer at Internet Identity, cautions Krebs On Security. |
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 KilroyPremium,MVM
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Ann Arbor, MI | That half of all Fortune 500 companies may just be that one machine from one of their IP address range may be showing infected. This may even be a "visiting" machine. In other words, most likely using numbers to make it seem a lot worse than it really is. They aren't giving an approximate computer count which would be more indicating of the issue. If it is too much more than that, then I guess they will have a lot of work coming up.
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1 edit | said by Kilroy:That half of all Fortune 500 companies may just be that one machine from one of their IP address range may be showing infected.
I can't imagine a corporate IT department that would not have already mitigated the DNSChanger Trojan problem either (but you should never underestimate the effects of ignorance or laziness, and since the FBI takeover of the infected servers effectively mitigated the infection, some may have simply neglected to follow through).
I can think of a possibility wherein the IT folks at a corporation did a meticulous scan for the trojan (and removed it if found), but neglected to change the DNS server IP addresses back to the normal settings. I just changed the DNS server IP addresses on a workstation on my network to use DNSChanger Trojan IP addresses, and then did a full scan with Norton Business Suite, and the latest Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool. Neither of those programs detected that I was using the DNSChanger Trojan IP addresses for DNS resolution.
I do wonder what all the infected OS X users are going to do when the internet shuts down. The DNSChanger Trojan also had variants that infected that platform, and since many (if not most) OS X users simply refuse to even consider the possibility of an infection, you have to wonder how many are going to be webless on March 8.
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 AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
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said by n00blet1 :then we use wires and start our own private wireless networks....
wires? use meshes and start private networks.
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That's a whole lot of poorly written journalism. |
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Mmm, delicious FUD. Apparently actually doing something for internet security is a bad thing.
The FBI could probably give away lavender scented candles and bath salts and a certain crowd would claim it's an internet shutdown simply because some people won't be on the internet for a bit because they're taking a bath...
*Flips a table* |
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 almexPremium
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Henderson, NV | reply to dauthiatull
Seriously, what a terrible article. The headline is worse.
Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt.
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I know that the moderator of this forum does not encourage the use of humor in posts here, but I can't believe the number of posters in this thread who have apparently gotten humorectomies in order to be PC in this forum.
Am I the only one to see the dry humor in the article's headline?
Did the naysayers actually read the article (or the articles from other IT industry publications on which that article is based, or the official FBI publication about the problem)? Or did the reading consist of only seeing the headline? No one is actually claiming that the FBI is going to shut down the internet. 
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 jaykaykay4 Ever YoungPremium,MVM
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kudos:19 | Just Joe Biden 'cause he invented it, eh!  |
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| said by jaykaykay:Just Joe Biden 'cause he invented it, eh!
Are you implying that my old neighbor Al Gore did not invent it? 
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Then I would hope the government pays us for our pains of being disconnected from the net.
I'm willing to bet someone will file a class action if the FBI does this.
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1 edit | said by Snakeoil:Then I would hope the government pays us for our pains of being disconnected from the net.
I'm willing to bet someone will file a class action if the FBI does this.
And someone else would take legal action if the FBI continued their takeover of someone else's servers. It was actually pretty amazing that the FBI was able to get the international cooperation that allowed them to even temporarily take over servers in the Ukraine and Russia. Also the court orders which allowed them to take over the US servers involved is about to expire (and with it the FBI's authority to continue the operation).
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 FutureMonKeep your Mitts off RMoneyPremium,ExMod 2002-05
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Seaside, CA | reply to Snakeoil
The internet has become a drug far, far worse than anything one could inhale.  People will sit in front of their computer for days on end, not even getting up to go to the bathroom, eat or sleep.
Wait...We ARE having a "War on the Internet" what with SOPA and all that mess that resembles it
Watch. I'd be willing to bet, if there isn't one already in the works, some form of law that makes it illegal for on-line games to allow connections to their servers for more than 8 hours at a time. Sort of like truck driving laws. For every x hours of non-stop driving, you gotta take an x hour long break.
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said by NetFixer:did the reading consist of only seeing the headline? No one is actually claiming that the FBI is going to shut down the internet.
If only it were a funny headline... >.> A headline or title is supposed to be a summary, so they're being disingenuous at best by using one like that.
The article could have refrained from using an intentionally provocative headline and been much more informative. Instead it stokes paranoia while doing the minimum it can to inform the readers, people who could possibly benefit from, say, being told how to clean up the infection.
Same with the OP's thread title. It's needless and hampers discussion, because obviously we're discussing that instead of the story (which is a non-story.)
said by Snakeoil:Then I would hope the government pays us for our pains of being disconnected from the net. I'm willing to bet someone will file a class action if the FBI does this.
Please tell me you're not serious. 
The Zlob trojan changed DNS server settings on infected machines. The FBI helped to take the operation down, and transparently replaced the malicious servers with functioning DNS servers, or so I gather.
People will either figure out how to change the settings themselves, or pay someone to fix it. Not the end of the world by any means. |
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said by FutureMon:Watch. I'd be willing to bet, if there isn't one already in the works, some form of law that makes it illegal for on-line games to allow connections to their servers for more than 8 hours at a time. South Korea already has a variation on that.
»www.cnn.com/2011/11/22/world/asi···dex.html |
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