Zlob can cut your internet connection on the 9th of July
Posted: 06 Jul 2012, 20:06
In November of last year the FBI blew up an international Botnet in Estonia. Those sneaky guys spread a trojan that infected your box with a DNS changer alias Zlob that changed your DNS-settings so it fetched DNS names from false servers.
Those criminals could then redirect you from the legitimate site to a false one and give you a false version of the internet.
Now the FBI ceased control of those servers and redirected everything to the right address again, so that every one infected would not notice the difference.
The problem with that is that people get sloppy with removing those trojans, because they could not register any negative effect.
On the 9th of July the FBI will shut down those servers - and if you are still infected by Zlob - your internet will be gone!
Time to panic folks! But fear not we will help you.
First check if you are infected here.
If you are - then you must basically reformat your HD and install everything from scratch. Also you should switch your router or clean it.
You will find instructions here
And to avoid this for the future?
Use Linux!
Those criminals could then redirect you from the legitimate site to a false one and give you a false version of the internet.
Now the FBI ceased control of those servers and redirected everything to the right address again, so that every one infected would not notice the difference.
The problem with that is that people get sloppy with removing those trojans, because they could not register any negative effect.
On the 9th of July the FBI will shut down those servers - and if you are still infected by Zlob - your internet will be gone!
Time to panic folks! But fear not we will help you.
First check if you are infected here.
If you are - then you must basically reformat your HD and install everything from scratch. Also you should switch your router or clean it.
You will find instructions here
And to avoid this for the future?
Use Linux!