The last few days reporting about malware (virus) DNSChanger so many scattered in both security and technology blog. This is reasonable because the start date of July 9, 2012, the computer is hit by this malware will not be able to access the internet. Though there are still hundreds of thousands of computers are still infected.
DNSChanger is a kind of malware (virus) are widely spread on the internet since about 5 years. Malware is changing the setting DNS (Domain Name System) computer or other internet access device so that when we visited the website address, we will be redirected to different websites (such as the web contains a lot of advertising). With such techniques it is reported that malware makers have made millions of dollars.
Malware is created by some cybercriminals from Estonia, who on November 8 last year they had been arrested in "Operation Ghost Click" by the FBI, NASA-OIG and the Police Estonia (www.dcwg.org). But despite this malware makers have been arrested, the effect is still quite a lot, because malwarenya itself has a lot to spread on the internet. The following picture of the number of infected computers by country.
How to know that our computers are infected with DNSChanger malware or not? To check out, pretty easy. Open one of the following websites:
http://www.dns-ok.us/
http://www.dns-ok.de/
If we get a web interface with the background color of green, it means that your computer is safe from this DNSChanger Malware infection. But if the color red, it means that your computer is infected, and possibly after the date (day), we will not be able to access the internet.
If the computer is infected, it's been a lot of small tools or software that we can use to repair or remove this malware. One of them use artificial tools Avira.
Source: www.avira.com/files/support/FAQ_KB_Download_Files/EN/AviraDNSRepairEN.exe
