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DNSChanger

Behavior

  • Can compromise Windows, Mac, and some routers and modems.
  • Modifies the DNS server entries to point to IP's in the Ukraine.
  • Redirects certain lookups. This prevents updating of anti-malware.

Removal and Recommendations

From everything I've gathered, most up-to-date anti-virus and anti-spyware should detect this. The problem is that the DNSChanger redirects away from anti-malware update sites. I personally recommend either scanning from a bootable CD/DVD (BartPE, UBCD4Windows, etc.) or pulling the drive to scan it from a clean, updated system.

Apple has an antivirus tool out that is supposed to remove it from their OS. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/networking_security/iantivirus.html

Block and/or monitor all traffic to and from 85.255.112.0 – 85.255.127.255 (85.255.112.0/20).

References

dnschanger.txt · Last modified: 2013/01/28 04:29 by 127.0.0.1