DNSChanger Doomsday Threat Fizzles - 'Doomsday' averted
US authorities have officially cut off servers in New York put in place to direct internet traffic for computers infected with the DNSChanger malware.
But concerns around a potential internet blackout for an estimated 211,000 computers still believed to be infected at the time of the shut down were ultimately unfounded. Approximately 6000 Australian internet subscribers faced a similar fate locally, with the majority sourced to Telstra connections.
"All quiet," said Barry Greene, a security consultant who volunteers with the DNS Changer Working Group, an ad-hoc group of experts who teamed up to help fight the virus and educate the public about eradicating the malware. The working group was using the number of service calls to internet service providers as a barometer for measuring the impact of the sever shutdowns.
