Taking Down DNSChanger: A First Person Account 46
penciling_in writes "Paul Vixie shares his personal account of the DNSChanger takedown operation, working with the FBI and a worldwide team. He also explains the delay issues in identifying and notifying victims, which resulted in the FBI asking the judge for an extension. They were given four more months. 'On July 9 2012 the replacement DNS servers operated by ISC will be shut down and any victims who still depend on these servers will face new risks,' he warns. A half-dozen national Internet security teams around the world have created special websites that will display a warning message to potential victims of the DNS Changer infection. The full list of these 'DNS Checking' websites is published by the DNS Changer Working Group."
Re:dcwg.org (Score:4, Informative)
I bought one a year or so ago on ebay; cost me $25. Not really "available" in that the sense that you could register it through any registrar, but available in that I could easily get it. There are lots of them on ebay all the time, they seem to start at $25 for a .com.