Computers Infected By 'DNS Changer' Trojan Malware Will Lose Internet Access Monday

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"Adam" <adam@no_thanks.com> said:
Also, for those with a router, it's safer to "not" use the factory password
provided by
the manufacturer.
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Really? I had no idea.
 
Kinda like the Y2K scare; my boss made me come back early from vacation for
that one. But that was all right- I got triple time for eight hours, plus
two extra vacation days for that one :-)
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Part of why the Y2K problem wasn't so bad is that a lot of people,
including me, worked hard to fix a lot of systems beforehand.

They ended up getting scorn instead of credit for their work.

I guess that's better than a world-wide collapse :-)
 
Gene E. Bloch said:
Part of why the Y2K problem wasn't so bad is that a lot of people,
including me, worked hard to fix a lot of systems beforehand.

They ended up getting scorn instead of credit for their work.

I guess that's better than a world-wide collapse :-)
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Exactly...
 
Adam said:
Well, that's one way the crooks got millions of $$$$.
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Tech support even told me not to change the factory password when
I was on the phone with them once. Change it anyways.
 
Gene E. Bloch said:
Part of why the Y2K problem wasn't so bad is that a lot of people,
including me, worked hard to fix a lot of systems beforehand.

They ended up getting scorn instead of credit for their work.

I guess that's better than a world-wide collapse :-)
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I think that was part of the reason I got that nice bonus for cutting my
vacation short. I put in many a night before 1/1/2000 getting all the
systems updated with the necessary Windows updates, etc., etc. The main
reason they had me come in on the first was to make sure it *wasn't* a
company-wide collapse, that everything was still running as it should. But
hey, if they want to give me extra time and money for it, who am I to
refuse? Besides, I felt I earned it anyhow. They were a good company to work
for; had a real "family" atmosphere throughout the organization.
 
Big Steel said:
Maybe you can convince your boss that the activation period is wrong, and
it will happen next Saturday so you can collect again. :)
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I'm retired now, and they closed their local plant about a year ago, but
with the popularity of Facebook and some of the other communities among the
engineers and office personnel, I sure I could have. They wouldn't have
needed to know that it was probably all good anyhow with the protection we
ran ;-)
 
I just got back from the grocery store, I still have Internet access,
and it's a big fizzle on doomsday so far. :)
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The likelihood of any person being infected by this malware is less than
1/2 of 1 percent.
 
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 15:54:00 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch" <not-
(e-mail address removed)> wrote in article <z1slp5ifs9x8
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Part of why the Y2K problem wasn't so bad is that a lot of people,
including me, worked hard to fix a lot of systems beforehand.

They ended up getting scorn instead of credit for their work.

I guess that's better than a world-wide collapse :-)
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I hear ya, I was also part of the effort to make sure it was a non-
event. Next time, I say we let disaster happen, and become heroes by
saving the world...

Never mind, we'll still get scorn because we didn't prevent it.

Sigh. Don't see how we can win...

--
Zaphod

Adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly),
manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships,
often thought to be completely out to lunch.
 
BobbyM said:
The likelihood of any person being infected by this malware is less than
1/2 of 1 percent.
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One in 200? I should hope it's *considerably* less than that.
Chris
 
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 08:13:19 -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox

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I hear ya, I was also part of the effort to make sure it was a non-
event. Next time, I say we let disaster happen, and become heroes by
saving the world...

Never mind, we'll still get scorn because we didn't prevent it.

Sigh. Don't see how we can win...
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Why is this a surprise? Look at the number of people who argue
against vaccinations because "the disease they prevent doesn't occur
that often".
 
I got one of those calls from someone that they were a Microsoft Tech. That
they were alerted to the malware in my computer. That it was done without my
knowledge. He wanted to fix it for me. No, I did not fall for it. For one
thing, Microsoft Techs don't call you. You call them. I was not born
yesterday!!

"Barry Schwarz" wrote in message

On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 08:13:19 -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox

snip
I hear ya, I was also part of the effort to make sure it was a non-
event. Next time, I say we let disaster happen, and become heroes by
saving the world...

Never mind, we'll still get scorn because we didn't prevent it.

Sigh. Don't see how we can win...
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Why is this a surprise? Look at the number of people who argue
against vaccinations because "the disease they prevent doesn't occur
that often".
 
Tech support even told me not to change the factory password when
I was on the phone with them once. Change it anyways.
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Which company was that? ...If you're willing to say :-)

That story sounds to me like a good reason to avoid that company's
routers.
 
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 15:54:00 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch" <not-
(e-mail address removed)> wrote in article <z1slp5ifs9x8
[email protected]>...

I hear ya, I was also part of the effort to make sure it was a non-
event. Next time, I say we let disaster happen, and become heroes by
saving the world...

Never mind, we'll still get scorn because we didn't prevent it.

Sigh. Don't see how we can win...
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Yeah. We can't even hope for a plain old zero-sum game :-)
 
One in 200? I should hope it's *considerably* less than that.
Chris
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Sorry, left out a decimal point. It should be less than 1 in 2000.
This is based on old data, assuming there are 1 billion computers in the
world & using the estimated number of computers that were infected in
Nov 11. There are significantly more computers than that now &
supposedly 100,000 or so fewer infected computers, which would reduce
the odds even further that any particular computer is infected.
 
Gene E. Bloch said:
Which company was that? ...If you're willing to say :-)

That story sounds to me like a good reason to avoid that company's
routers.
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No names but it's one of the top selling wireless routers that I recently
bought.
It may have been just that one tech support person's slight oversight.
 
No names but it's one of the top selling wireless routers that I recently
bought.
It may have been just that one tech support person's slight oversight.
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Let's hope :-)
 
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