09:17
Thomas Rajasekar
In November 2011, a nasty
exploit to computers that redirected DNS Servers was created and used. This
nasty virus was soon diverted by the FBI, in possibly the most friendly and
fair way our government has ever done. For months now the FBI has homed servers
to divert and fix what this malware program caused, but on July 9th 2012 the
FBI announced ending their operation and shut down these servers. The effects
have been estimated to great measures, to the fears that millions of Americans
will lose connection to the internet,and the world going up in flames due to
lack of communication. Since the Feds announcement corporations like Google
have announced programs that have been running now since the 23rd of May. These
programs scan your
computer for this DNS switcher program
"aka the nasty malware program".
Now, it is true most virus
databases are able to track down and delete malware programs on your system,
but in the new world with our new internet based technology, that may not be
the case anymore. So what does this program do? What has been leaked out of the
feds about it? Well you can rest assured our brother was arrested in November
shortly after the release of his program. Due to this fact they are assured
that they have fixed the problem, due to higher thinking we can only think they
have over looked something.
The only thing we can hope
for is that this will only affect a small handful of systems. Common users
mostly. So what is malware? Malware are programs that force you to do what
someone else wants. Malware programs create bot nets, using innocent peoples
computers/common user systems as weapons without there knowledge. For the
longest time apple users were told they wouldn’t have to worry about this
issue. Late April, early May this was proven false which also made all systems
at risk now.
So you’re probably
wondering how one would download one of these programs,which is a really good
question. Back in the dark ages, they had to be installed through third party
programs from the downloads you got for games software from untrusted sources.
Today, in the modern age of technology, these programs, like all viruses, can
be automatically uploaded to your system through cookies and random file
downloads websites through the many games we play online. Many of you readers
are also at risk due to the fact IRC servers send data packets that may contain
such files.
The only luck is that certain ISPs change up there DNS
servers monthly, corporations like Comcast, while they do this they also
release and renew IP address granting you probably the most open and free way
to have anonymous web browsing at least for the first 20 minutes from the
renewal.
