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FBI Cleans infected DNS Addresses

The FBI went to court and got the authority to take over DNS servers and
reroute them to “clean servers” that they can maintain temporarily. This was
a due to maleware known as DNS Catcher. The FBI will be turning off those
temporary servers on July 9th, which means that hundreds of thousands of
computers that are infected will once again be at risk because they didn’t
really know they were infected in the first place. Leo says that this is by
far the worst way to handle an issue.

The malware is called DNS Changer and users are advised to visit this site
for help. Leo says that DNS Changer has been around since 2007 and this
represents “grotesque overreaction” on the part of the FBI and the judge who
ordered action taken. You can go to the FBI Operation GhostClick site to see
what the feds are doing to stop it, including temporary DNS servers to
handle the traffic. Leo says that this is not the way to handle this,
especially considering it’s a fairly minor infection. You don’t want
government to modify how DNS works when users can keep their OS and security
software up to date to cope with the infection.

Update your AVS. Run the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool. Run an
Online Virus Scanner for a second opinion. Both Eset and Trend Micro have
good online utilities for that. If you can’t get to it, you’ve got it. The
best thing to do at this point, if you suspect you’re infected, is to back
up your data and then reformat your hard drive, installing and updating
Windows from a known good source.