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

Rasmussen said there are still millions of PCs infected with DNSChanger. “At this rate, a lot of users are going to see their Internet break on March 8.”

via Half of Fortune 500s, US Govt. Still Infected with DNSChanger Trojan — Krebs on Security.

Given the Conficker Working Group’s experience, shutting down the surrogate DNS network on March 8 may actually be a faster — albeit more painful — way to clean up the problem.