DNS Changer Virus Caused Threat To Thousands Of Computers In The World.

DNS CHANGER VIRUS

DNS Changer Virus was a DNS hijacking Trojan active from 2007 to 2011. The work of an Estonian company known as Rove Digital, the malware infected computers by modifying a computer’s DNS entries to point toward its own rogue name servers, which then injected its own advertising into Web pages. At its peak, DNSChanger was estimated to have infected over 4 million computers, bringing in at least US$14 million in profits to its operator from fraudulent advertising revenue.

Both Windows and Mac OS X variants of DNSChanger were circulated, the latter taking the form of a related Trojan known as RSPlug.

According to Some News Chanells , now this virus has entred into the more then 300000(3 Lakhs) computers . It is also been said that Once it entred into a User Computer then the User Lost the Access to Internet and none of the websites on Internet Will Open .

Here is the List of most affected countries :

1 . USA – 70000 (70 Thousand) Computers

2 . Italy – 28000 (28 Thousand) Computers

3 . India – 20000 (20 Thousand) Computers