There are other exploits that do this as well. The best protection against
this is to use a strong password on your router.
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Kerry Brown
"Andrew McGovern" <a.mcgovern@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:5lB4k.78830$cL6.22385@newsfe27.ams2...
>I always update my anti-virus software regularly so I should be OK.
>
> Thanks for the news anyway.
>
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> PC Slowing Down? Hardware Problems?
> http://andrewmcgovernonline.com/pcrepair/
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> "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
> news:uiB4k.19$TL6.16@trnddc01...
>>A variant of the ZLob Trojan known as DNSChanger has been known to modify
>>the DNS servers on
>> your PC. Thus you get directed to malicious web sites instead of the web
>> site you are
>> trying to get to.
>>
>> Now there is a variant of the DNSChanger, installer ~300KB, that can use
>> TCP port 80 and a
>> dictionary of passwords to modify the DNS Server list on SOHO Routers.
>>
>> http://www.trustedsource.org/blog/42...s-into-routers
>> http://blog.washingtonpost.com/secur..._wirele_1.html
>>
>> --
>> Dave
>> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
>> Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
>>
>>
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