Google to Warn 500,000+ of DNS Changer Infections
Summary: Google planned to begin warning users whose computers showed signs of the DNSChanger Trojan, estimating more than 500,000 systems remained infected ahead of a court-imposed July 9, 2012 deadline to power down surrogate control servers. Google security engineer Damian Menscher said the warning would appear on Google search properties in dozens of languages and reach roughly a half-million users in the first week.
What's compelling: When those court-ordered servers go dark on July 9, 2012, every still-infected machine loses Internet access - and DNSChanger also disables antivirus on its hosts, so those half-million systems likely carry other malware as well.
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