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virus changing DNS settings

mukki · 2008-05-04 09:37:50

just a heads up if you regularily manually remove virusses, one thing i have noticed twice in the last week is that some are now setting up manual DNS addressess, which prevent windows and antivirus updates

04-05-2008 10:37AM

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mukki

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just a heads up

if you regularily manually remove virusses, one thing i have noticed twice in the last week is that some are now setting up manual DNS addressess, which prevent windows and antivirus updates

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#2 04-05-2008 11:56AM

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And hosts files while there at it....thats an old one though, usually pointing the installed AV Apps update site to another site altogether.

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#3 04-05-2008 12:46PM

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yeah the windows update error pointed to host file entrys, but it was fine

never heard of a virus setting dns to manual and entering 2 servers before, will post the 2 ips if i see it again

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#4 04-05-2008 12:50PM

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As it is entirely possible that these would be IPs of similarly compromised personal computers, please do not post the IP in its entirety.

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