Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:26:02 -0600 > Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> 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!!!!! > > <sigh> > > 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. >
I don't really think they can unless they just cut power to all the computers. After all, the internet is supposed to be redundant right? If there is a few computers still running that have a connection, it is still working. Sort of anyway. Does make one wonder tho. They have been talking about having a internet "off switch" but I'm not sure it would be that easy. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
