Public awareness campaigns help drop the number of infected computers to the thousands, and ISPs save the day for the rest.
Despite the dire warnings about the Internet going dead for thousands of people today, I am happy to report that it's all business as usual. You may proceed to the cute cat videos.
After months of warnings, the FBI pulled the plug on servers that were set up to block a Trojan that was hijacking computers by changing their DNS settings to go to rogue servers and serving up ads. The government set up legitimate DNS servers so infected computers wouldn't lose their online access, but turned off that network today, potentially stranding thousands of computers from the Internet.
"We haven't seen a single report" of someone losing Internet access, said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer at the SANS Institute. "It's all hype. There's really nothing happening."
Top 20 countries and estimates of computers infected with DNSChanger this weekend.
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