How to find Whether you PC is Infected by DNSChanger malware ?

DNSChanger malware scam!!

by Mohan Gauns

In 2007 small group of cyber criminals distributed a malware called ‘DNSChanger’ which when installed would change the user's DNS settings to point to the criminals rogue DNS network. It redirects valid searches and URLs to malicious Web sites, attempt to steal personal information and generate illegal Ad revenue to criminals.

To combat this, FBI launched mission called ‘Operation Ghost Click’ which resulted in number of arrests. FBI provided list of infected servers to Internet Service Providers, and instead of shutting down the same they redirected infected servers to healthy DNS Servers. In January of this year, the German Federal Office for Information Security announced that the tamed DNS network would be shut down on March 8; however, it appears that the efforts to clear the DNS changer malware from the millions of infected PCs has taken a lot longer than expected with hundreds of thousands still being infected, according to the DNS Changer Working Group. Therefore, the closure of the rogue DNS network has been delayed for four months, and is now scheduled to be shut down on July 9, 2012. . This action means that many of the millions of computers that are still currently infected with the DNSChanger malware should now be receiving healthy DNS server activity even if the DNS server IP addresses on their systems are changed by the malware until July 9. If still malware is not removed then it might stop working after Due date.

How to check if your pc is infected?

Windows xp users can follow following steps to verify if they are infected by the malware or not.
Go to:

• Start->run->type ‘cmd’.This will open command prompt window.

• In Command prompt type ‘ipconfig/all’ hit enter.This will display list of IPs used by the system.

• Check if any of the IP address falls into given list.

List of infected servers:

• 85.255.112.0 to 85.255.127.255
• 67.210.0.0 to 67.210.15.255
• 93.188.160.0 to 93.188.167.255
• 77.67.83.0 to 77.67.83.255
• 213.109.64.0 to 213.109.79.255
• 64.28.176.0 to 64.28.191.255

Also FBI has a ‘DNS IP Checker Web page’ that you can use to check your DNS servers.

https://forms.fbi.gov/check-to-see-if-your-computer-is-using-rogue-DNS

What if your PC is infected?

1. Back up all your files into personal drive.
2. Run any of the Malware removal program from numerous options available.
3. Re-install your OS.

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How to secure yourself from keyloggers?

A keylogger can be a device or piece of software. Either way, it is a very serious security concern to ones system critical information. Keyloggers, as the name suggests, are capable of monitoring your activities on your computer by logging every keystroke you enter and saving it into its memory for later retrieval and review by the person who installed it on your system.


Types of Keyloggers There are two basic types of keyloggers

– the hardware keylogger
A hardware keylogger is a device that is attached, usually to a keyboard, at the end of the PS2 or USB port and at the port and is attached to the computer port.

- the software keylogger.
The other type is the software keylogger. In other words, it is a type of computer program installed into a computer. Software keyloggers can not only monitor save the keystrokes that you type, it can also take screenshots of your computer, and copy the data you put in your clipboard.

How Keyloggers Work?
No matter what type of keylogger is used, their main objective is to monitor the activities done on the computer. It basically intercepts such activities it is programmed to monitor and saves it into a file for software keyloggers and into a dedicated memory device for hardware types.
Such data is later retrieved by the person who installed the device. For hardware versions, the physical removal of the device from the computer where its contents is downloaded into a computer for evaluation. For software loggers, the log file is either sent remotely to the person through email, FTP upload, through an IM messages, or by physical access by in that same computer.Keyloggers can be used as payloads from various types of malware. It can come with spyware, trojans, backdoors, and adware and automatically install themselves into a computer without the user's knowledge.

How to Get Rid of Keyloggers? Keyloggers, when used illegally, is considered as a form of malware that should be immediately. The best way to get rid of keyloggers is to use both updated antivirus and anti-spyware software (For spyware removal, read how to get rid of spyware).
Commercial security software like Norton Internet Security, Mcaffee Internet Security Suite, and Eset Internet Security are some good security suite software that are capable of removing keylogger software in your computer.Avoiding Keyloggers It is quite easy to avoid getting victimized by keyloggers. First step is to have your computer running updated versions of security software. Never download software from unsafe websites too. If you have to download software, go directly to the website and click the download button.
Avoid using public computers when logging into your email, online banking, or other secure online services. If you really have to, make sure you immediately change your password at home or at a secured computer.
If you suspect that the public computer you are using has a keylogger, try to “trick” it by typing all the consonants or certain characters of your password first then using the mouse to insert the vowels or other remaining characters of your password.

TRICK TO ACCESS BLOCKED WEBSITES ON YOUR NETWORK AT SCHOOL ,COLLEGE & WORK

How to access blocked websites like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo at school or office Where they are often blocked?

This article will suggests workarounds to help you unblock access to restricted websites at universities, school and offices and use them there.

Most of the blocked or blacklisted sites in Saudi Arabia are about porn, religion, women, health, politics and pop culture.
They even block access to websites that sell swimming or bathing suits are often blocked.
In China, websites that talk about porn, Tibet or Democracy are blocked due to abusing each other.
Blocking access to undesirable or ENtaintment Web sites has been a common government tricksother countries are believed to extend greater censorship over the net than any other country in the world.

Social sites that are often blocked include Google News, Typepad, ebay, Blogger blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Bebo, Myspace, Orkut, MySpace, Pandora, Bebo, Photobucket, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL AIM, Flickr, last.fm, etc
these websites provide social connect whcich ultimately lead to world of entaintement.

There are always many reasons to bypass the internet filters and unblock websites very easily.
The following tricks will show how to access all websites at school, college, offices or at home in your
restricted network.

1) To access blocked website, type the IP number(eg. 127.0.0.0) instead of the URL in the browser address bar. However, if your blocking software maps the IP address to the web server (reverse DNS lookup),
the website will still remain blocked so go for next step.

2) Yoy can Use a URL redirection service like tinyurl.com or snipurl.com or any other. These domain forwarding services sometimes work as the address in the the url box remain the redirect url and do not change to the banned site (url remain intact).

How Access Google Talk Chat or GMail in Office

3) Use Google Mobile Search - Google display the normal HTML pages as if you are viewing them on a mobile phone. During the translation, Google removes the javascript content and CSS scripts and breaks a longer page into several smaller pages.
Google Mobile
Use Mobile browsers as proxy to open restricted websites.This s foten a reliable trick.

4) Enter the URL in Google or Yahoo search and then visit the cached copy of the page this may help you to get on to the blockes website. To retrieve the page more quickly from Google's cache, click "Cached Text Only" while the browser is loading the page from cache.

5)You can access blocked or restricted websites by using Yahoo Babelfish or Google Translate language tools as a proxy server this method may often fail .

You just have to invoke the Google translate service with the same language pair like English to English. Assuming that Google is accessible in your school, you should be able to access any website with this method - Babelfish Proxy Sever

6)There are anonymizer websites who will fetch the blocked web page from their servers and display them to you. As far as the service provider is concerned, you are viewing the page on the Anonymizer website and not the blocked site
so you can use them very efficently.



7: Anonymous Surfing - Browse the internet via free proxy server. A proxy server (or proxies) is a normal computer that hides the identity of computers on its network from the Internet .This is aften the most best way to get acess to the restricted network in much easier way also your identity is not revieled.

Which means that only the address of the proxy server is visible to the world and not of those computers that are using it to browse the Internet. Just visit any proxy server with your Web browser and enter a URL or the address of the blocked website.

More New Features coming soon on facebook

New Features of Facebook
Facebook founder mark zuckerberg says’ company is planning to “launch something extraordinary”. But he doesn’t say anything about it in detail he only says that we launch something awesome. However, it is being speculated that the new feature to be launched could be in the mobile or tablet space. A report in the Los Angeles Times said there are various mobile products in development at Facebook, including the release of a long-awaited Facebook app for Apple’s iPad and a specialized app for photo-sharing on the iPhone.

Facebook Director of Engineering, Mr. Andrew Bosworth, as saying that “we are working in something that we don’t have before so nearly we launch our new feature”. So basically we can say that Facebook plan is for new mobile products, specially focus on Ipad. Face book is reportedly working on an HTML 5-based Web app for the iPad. When this web app design it can break the strong one distribution of apple app.

The project has been developed at the 40-person Seattle office, which is Facebook’s only major engineering hub outside of its Palo Alto, California headquarters another features of Facebook is in new photo sharing service iphone. In it facebook add a feature of color and instagram. It's not clear if the rumored new photo-sharing feature would be built into Facebook's current iPhone app or function as a stand-alone app.

There is one more social networking site launch by Google that is Google+. It is a big competitor of facebook. They also provide same features which facebook provide. But as we seen before Facebook has over500 million users all around the world. So to reach at that level the way of Google+ is too difficult. Facebook is also launch new features nearly as per Ceo of Company MARK ZUCKERBERG. So Facebook also giving tough completion to Google+. Facebook is a very popular site in the world. So it is too hard to beat them in a social network.

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SAFE WAY TO BROWSE WEB USING EPIC BROWSER

Moreover Epic Browser is totally free. Although its focus is on Indian Consumers, users from other countries will also find it useful. Epic Browser is the first product of the Bangalore based software company HiddenReflex

From the browser's about us Page, " Hidden Reflex is a software product startup founded by Alok Bhardwaj in 2007 and based in Bangalore. Alok, who was raised in the U.S., was inspired by the success of open source software and web 2.0 innovations."


Features:

Tweaked for improved speeds. I have personally found the Epic Browser performing better in rendering pages than original Mozilla Firefox 3.6.6. Both browsing and downloading were found to be faster on the same internet connection than Mozilla Firefox.

Epic automatically display an option to view cached versions of not found pages from 3 sources. Google, Wayback and Coral.

Anti Phishing Protection: Epic shows a big bolded domain name so you can never confuse google.com to a scammy googlescam.com.

Sidebar: The epic sidebar is a gem in its own. It contains links to Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, Gmail, Yahoo with live updates to your feeds directly in the browser. So, you can always stay updated to your friends.You can use the sidebar to find jobs, play games, make a to do list, backup your hard drive, start a timer and even download a customized app.

Malicious Website Warnings: Epic warns you whenever you are going to visit a malicious website.

What's more? Epic has integrated World Of Trust Search and rating with which you can sort your results and remove less trusted sites



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USB immunizer by bitdefender

Now For many years, Autorun-based malware has been atop of the worldwide "e-threat" landscape, with notorious representatives such as Trojan.
AutorunInf , the Conficker worm ( Win32.Worm.Downadup ) or the Worm.Autorun.VHD.which is Introduced back in the Windows XP era to facilitate software installations from CD-ROM media and for non-technical computer users (us), the Autorun feature has rapidly become the most infection vector and technique of choice for cyber-criminals and stealers.

The "USB immunizer" is BitDefender's response to this growing issue. This small utility which is divided in two sections.


>>The Immunize option allows you to immunize your USB storage device or SD card(or any other) against infections with autorun-based malware which is fatal. Even if your storage device has been plugged into an infected computer(which is infected by this virus), the piece of malware will be unable to create its "autorun.inf file", thus annihilating any chance of auto-launching itself.

>>The Immunize Computer slider feature allows you to toggle the autorun feature On or Off for any removable media (except for CD/DVD-ROM devices but some can support this feature). If you accidentally plug in an infected USB drive(virused) that has not been immunized, the computer will not auto-execute the piece of malware located on the USB storage device and you will be at safe!!.


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