Recently there has been a lot of press on the DNSChanger Virus. The reason you haven’t heard anything from us, is if you are a current OnePlan Managed Service client, you are taken care of. Plenty of news outfits are amping up this DNSChanger malware “event” on Monday with stories with apocalyptic titles like “Countdown to Internet Doomsday: Will Your Computer Survive?” or “How to survive internet doomsday” or “End of the Internet? ‘Doomsday’ virus will crash thousands of computers on July 9.”
Here’s what’s going on.
“Criminals have learned that if they can control a user’s DNS servers, they can control what sites the user connects to on the Internet,” warns the FBI on its Web site. “By controlling DNS, a criminal can get an unsuspecting user to connect to a fraudulent Web site or to interfere with that user’s online Web browsing.”
The Internet isn’t shutting down. What is happening, is that the FBI will turn off two servers that it originally architected to thwart the spread of an opportunistic and irritating (but otherwise innocuous) bit of malware. When the two servers do go dark, computers still infected with the malware will lose their ability to translate web addresses into IP addresses. For these people this means any network requests made using web addresses won’t work.
Here’s the deal. If you haven’t already, click this simple infection checker, run by the DNS Changer Working Group (The Good Guys) to determine if your computer has the malware. You will get an instant GREEN or RED answer. If you are infected visit the DCWG’s “fix” page today (or by this weekend) and follow a few simple steps to cleanse your computer.
If you are a business and need help, you can call On-site Tech Support.com at 619-717-8070. If you are a home or home office user you can call our sister company CODE29 at 858-461-7275.
If you are looking for a DNSChanger Kaseya Script, it’s here.