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Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:00:00 schrieb Dale: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:26:02 -0600 |
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> > |
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> > Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> Howdy, |
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> >> |
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> >> I ran across this and though it was a joke. Did a news search and |
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> >> sure enough, it is reported in lots of places. Random linky: |
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> >> |
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> >> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102856/Will-FBI-shut-Internet-Ma |
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> >> rch-8-virus-concerns.html?ito=feeds-newsxml |
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> >> |
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> >> Is there any truth to this mess? My bigger and better question, how |
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> >> is shutting down the internet going to fix this? When the net comes |
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> >> back up, they are still going to be infected. Right? |
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> >> |
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> >> I'm glad I run a really nice Linux OS. |
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> > Gawd, I hate it when morons write sensational articles that attempt to |
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> > make sense to other morons. You get crap like that. |
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> > So if this is legit, and I'm not saying it is, what happened is this: |
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> > The malware changes the DNS cache settings on infected machines, |
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> > sending the user to rogue caches. The FBI captured some (or all) of |
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> > these rogue caches and (possibly) tried to fix them. A court has now |
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> > said those rogue caches must now be shut down. |
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> > So if the morons reading the article do nothing, on March 8 the DNS |
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> > caches they use will be down. The user's DNS will not work. |
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> > OMFG!!!!!!! Da intartubes is broken!!!!! |
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> > |
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> > <sigh> |
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> > Instead, why not just set the DNS caches to something NOT owned by Ivan |
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> > The Russian Spammer? |
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> > And no, the intartubes will NOT be switched off. |
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> I don't really think they can unless they just cut power to all the |
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> computers. After all, the internet is supposed to be redundant right? |
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> If there is a few computers still running that have a connection, it is |
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> still working. Sort of anyway. |
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> Does make one wonder tho. They have been talking about having a |
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> internet "off switch" but I'm not sure it would be that easy. |
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basically, yes. Take down the core routers and backbones and everything falls |
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apart. |
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