Half of Fortune 500s, US Govt. Still Infected with DNSChanger Trojan

You have got to be kidding me. Really? HALF? There is something called "anti-virus software"! Big word, I know! BUT, you need to get it and install it and then all the bad things happening to you right now will start to go away. YES... even your mother-in-law will go away. Anti-virus software is VERY good now!

More than two months after authorities shut down a massive Internet traffic hijacking scheme, the malicious software that powered the  criminal network is still running on computers at half of the Fortune 500 companies, and on PCs at nearly 50 percent of all federal government agencies, new research shows.

The malware, known as the “DNSChanger Trojan,” quietly alters the host computer’s Internet settings to hijack search results and to block victims from visiting security sites that might help scrub the infections. DNSChanger frequently was bundled with other types of malware, meaning that systems infected with the Trojan often also host other, more nefarious digital parasites. 

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