{"id":15958,"date":"2012-03-06T19:10:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T19:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=15958"},"modified":"2012-03-06T19:10:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T19:10:48","slug":"internet-could-come-down-on-march-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2012\/03\/internet-could-come-down-on-march-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet could come down on March 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_15959\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15959\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15959\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com.S3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/sites\/356\/fbi-internet-temporarily-end.n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Internet is off?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A malware called DNSchanger Trojan has infected many computers and many are still corrupted. \u00a0What does it do?<\/p>\n<p>It alters user DNS settings, such that it starts pointing users to malicious DNS in data centers in Estonia, New York, and Chicago. The malicious DNS servers can do many thing such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fake, malicious answers, altering user searches, and<\/li>\n<li>promoting fake and dangerous products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The thieves \u2013 using this technique \u2013 had earned $14 million in illicit fees even before they were caught by the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>To counter this, court issued order which expires on March 8, where the Internet Systems Corporation will operate the replacement DNS servers for the rogue network. \u00a0This will let the affected networks enough time to identify infected hosts. \u00a0It will avoid any disruptions for machines which are impacted.<\/p>\n<p>Things <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/news\/technology\/March-8-Internet-Doomsday-threat-141037783.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">can come to a standstill<\/a> for many internet connections on March 8, but not necessarily:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The court order allowed the FBI\u2019s replacement servers to stay online for 120 days.\u00a0 That original 120 day period ends on March 8, 2012, however, experts believe millions of computers are still infected, which is where the \u2018Internet Doomsday\u2019 phrase comes into the picture.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI has asked the court to extend the order until July 9, 2012, which will give users an additional 120 days to get their computer\u2019s cleaned up, essentially postponing the doomsday threat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the actions to clean up, many machines and even you could be still impacted if you find the DNS entries from the following ranges on your machine. \u00a0You can use a document by FBI to do a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/stories\/2011\/november\/malware_110911\/DNS-changer-malware.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">self check as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><em>85.255.112.0 through 85.255.127.255<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>67.210.0.0 through 67.210.15.255<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>93.188.160.0 through 93.188.167.255<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>77.67.83.0 through 77.67.83.255<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>213.109.64.0 through 213.109.79.255<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>64.28.176.0 through 64.28.191.25<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A malware called DNSchanger Trojan has infected many computers and many are still corrupted. \u00a0What does it do? 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