Dhs Appeals To Users Still Infected With Dnschanger

snoopy · May 10, 2012

Wednesday, May 9, 2012
DHS Appeals to Users Still Infected with DNSChanger

The Department of Homeland Security is the latest agency to appeal to U.S. consumers to check their computers for signs of DNSChanger malware before they are knocked offline in a couple of months.

Rand Beers, under-secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate, implored users to test their home and office computers for the trojan, which infected more than 4 million machines in 100 countries before law enforcement officals took down the sophisticated fraud ring. As part of "Operation Ghost Click," authorities took command of implicated DNS servers and redirected compromised computers to surrogate servers. Those servers now must be taken down July 9 by court order. At that time, any machine still tethered to the temporary servers will be forced offline.

"I encourage everyone to keep your operating system, browser, and other critical software optimized by installing updates," Beers wrote in a blog post on the DHS Web site. "And, you can assess your own computer’s susceptibility for the DNSChanger malware at the industry-wide DNSChanger Working Group website. In fact, I just tested my computer at home – the process was simple, straight-forward, and only took a few minutes."
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More details here: https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/dhs-appeals-users-still-infected-dnschanger-050912

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