From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RyhnX-0003Fr-Lv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:45:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DA16E0A01; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:45:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A5BE0886 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:44:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbdr12 with SMTP id dr12so3387665wgb.10 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:44:16 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of alan.mckinnon@gmail.com designates 10.180.107.68 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.107.68; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of alan.mckinnon@gmail.com designates 10.180.107.68 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=alan.mckinnon@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=alan.mckinnon@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.107.68]) by 10.180.107.68 with SMTP id ha4mr3009866wib.9.1329561856670 (num_hops = 1); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:44:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CL+hSW4LqztiVdRWnwjRvsKqQ66IDmdvxdGlK4FvTDw=; b=NquCSQ75LKM6RIwaKxefMjKlko6GzKxYeE4uhXgzokR5MpYuq2VHoJfqmX2zGPTc+b WbKccU1kKfRnX7V8Klfs4vrTCPlWi6Khv/6GrVgodC4EwDNsoanmnOHwd3Hu2ytZu7RV R2JdehXZu8CJR6J3Pq7khJTysjM+xmC6clFpE= Received: by 10.180.107.68 with SMTP id ha4mr2545960wib.9.1329561856552; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:44:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-2-107.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.2.107]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n5sm7257633wiw.7.2012.02.18.02.44.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:44:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:44:09 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess? Message-ID: <20120218124409.43286f16@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <4F3F7CBA.9020600@gmail.com> References: <4F3F7CBA.9020600@gmail.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7628a03e-eec8-4f9f-9d4c-5ad7957c6f2a X-Archives-Hash: f326fc2e5f8b55aa9fa398236ebbbbda On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:26:02 -0600 Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I ran across this and though it was a joke. Did a news search and > sure enough, it is reported in lots of places. Random linky: > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102856/Will-FBI-shut-Internet-March-8-virus-concerns.html?ito=feeds-newsxml > > Is there any truth to this mess? My bigger and better question, how > is shutting down the internet going to fix this? When the net comes > back up, they are still going to be infected. Right? > > I'm glad I run a really nice Linux OS. Gawd, I hate it when morons write sensational articles that attempt to make sense to other morons. You get crap like that. So if this is legit, and I'm not saying it is, what happened is this: The malware changes the DNS cache settings on infected machines, sending the user to rogue caches. The FBI captured some (or all) of these rogue caches and (possibly) tried to fix them. A court has now said those rogue caches must now be shut down. So if the morons reading the article do nothing, on March 8 the DNS caches they use will be down. The user's DNS will not work. OMFG!!!!!!! Da intartubes is broken!!!!! Instead, why not just set the DNS caches to something NOT owned by Ivan The Russian Spammer? And no, the intartubes will NOT be switched off. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com