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DNSChanger
Once upon, in the cold month of November 2011, the FBI through an operation called "Operation Ghost Click" Estonia managed to scoop up six people for committing acts of shocking.
They infect more than four million computers in the world, whether PC or Mac, with malware that has the ability to transform control the victim computer and directs it to a fake DNS servers that have been prepared in advance.
What goal is it if not for financial gain. Especially of online advertising activity, spam, and scam.
The problem is, at the time of arrest still there are millions of computers infected by this DNSchanger, and still use the fake DNS as main DNS.
If the fake DNS servers were switched off, then the entire computer automatically using fake DNS will experience minor apocalypse alias can't connect to the internet for its DNS settings have not been addressed.
Therefore, the FBI took the decision to maintain a fake DNS server is after a clean up those servers from malicious action. That was good news for those who are infected by DNSchanger.
The bad news is, the court ordered the FBI to shut down all bogus DNS server was on March 8, 2012 and eventually extended until the date of July 9, 2012 because it considers has given sufficient grace period for the victims of this DNSchanger to fix her computer.
Therefore, if your computer is infected by DNSchanger and has not been cleaned, then on July 9, 2012 would not be practical to access the internet or in other words having a small apocalypse internet.
Worse, it not only infects DNSchanger PC and Mac, but it also has the ability to infect routers and manipulating the router's DNS server.
So that all computers or devices connected through this router and automatically use the DNS router will go astray and also even a doomsday internet computers are not at all infected by DNSchanger.
For Your Information, DNS or Domain Name Server is a means of translation between human languages with the IP address (internet protocol) which is the number of numbers.
As an illustration, we are certainly easier to remember www.google.com while the computer system actually identify the address of that computer with a number or IP address.
So, www.google.com actually known by the computer as 173.194.38.162. If you want to try, please type the IP in the internet browser and you will be escorted to the Google site. DNS server that is the 'pander' to translate human languages 173.194.38.162 www.google.com into IP numbers that computers understand.
So in short, if the interpreter does not exist, then the computer does not understand what the man meant. Human and technical factors such as lack of understanding is bound to wonder why his computer so helpless and thought the internet dead.
It's going to happen on 9 July. Then the question, why we can control the computer changed? Of course this is caused by the action of DNSChanger virus which change DNS server address of the victim's computer -- which usually refers to the control of the internet provider or ISP -- a fake DNS entry that has been prepared in advance.
If the DNS server your computer or router to use DNS IP address ranges below, it means that your system is infected by DNSchanger ever, and including the end of the world will experience the Internet on July 9 of this year.
If your PC/mac uses antivirus software and always updated with a good quality, small chance your computer will be infected by DNSChanger.
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