Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July

Your router is set to be a DNS server. Your Laptop or computer is set to find an IP automatically. So, when you computer seeks an IP on a local network it will get the 192.168.xxx.xxx address.

Unless you hook directly to the internet and assign your own IP to interact with the internet your computer will not get assigned the bogus IP that re-directs.

If you have a ISP router installed in your house then normally you will not have admin rights to it to change the IP.

I use TWC.. they can access their router, but anything behind it they cannot.

 

No my router is set to be a DHCP (Dynamic host control protocol) server to assign private IP addresses to the LAN not a DNS (domain name server) that resolves google.com into 74.125.224.72
I could assign static IP addresses and not use DHCP at all but unless you know that google.com is 74.125.224.72 for every website in the world you have to have DNS.

Your computer (and your router if it's any good )has a place where you can put in the IP addresses of the DNS servers you want to use. Under local area connections properties tcp/ip properties right under obtain address automatically the bottom says obtain dns servers automatically click off that and you can specify one of the addresses I gave earlier. Or any other DNS servers address you trust.

If you don't ever change these settings then the computer uses the gateway address and asks the router then the modem then the ISP provider for a DNS servers address.
Using a specific DNS server (instead of asking your ISP every time) can speed up/streamline the connection.

There is something else wrong here though.
Consider this If you are the man (law) and you bust the bad guys ,own the rouge DNS servers,
you patch and replace the black hat hacker boxes with proper DNS service computers (to not disrupt the internet).
Then if you want every one to fix their own malware infestations why don't you/they redirect all requests ( for any site thats requested) to a server with an informative page on how to fix the infestation instead of just giving accurate answers of here's yahoo. You would have the ultimate way to contact only the users who need to fix it and, in advance of just shut-R -down

 

The Average common user is not going to be setting their IP addresses..

But on page two this was listed.

From the FBI website
Update on March 12, 2012: To assist victims affected by the DNSChanger malicious software, the FBI obtained a court order authorizing the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) to deploy and maintain temporary clean DNS servers. This solution is temporary, providing additional time for victims to clean affected computers and restore their normal DNS settings. The clean DNS servers will be turned off on July 9, 2012, and computers still impacted by DNSChanger may lose Internet connectivity at that time.

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011...malware_110911

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011...er-malware.pdf
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Yup most users get there IP addresses from a dhcp server somewhere unless they pay extra for a static IP.

A DNS server is really just like a phone book you provide a name it gives a number/address associated with that name.
My point at the end is the FBI "stole back" the hackers phone from the first analogy so instead of the hacker answering (DNS requests) with any number that benefits the hacker. The FBI answers with the right number.
But if the FBI really just wanted people to clean up the infection they could easily inform virtually every one who is compromised.

All they would have to do is replace the address of one popular site, say yahoo to point to http :// informative. but. imaginagy. governmentsite. gov
where the users who were trying to navigate to yahoo would end up at an FBI site that informs them of the infection and assists removal.

In two days redirect all googles traffic or MSN in two weeks 99% of the affected users would be informed and warned.
And nobody but the users of compromised systems would ever go to the FBI ran temp DNS any way so only they would be redirected and then only a few at a time.
Once the temporary DNS servers stop getting requests they can be turned off even if its 2 weeks early.

Why rely on press releases to inform people (most of who aren't affected) and run the servers longer than needed?

Insert paranoid conspiracy theory here.

 

so the word is if your computer is infected the second you touch it you turn into a zombie