I'm not sure what's up with your issue. I checked last night and the US site worked fine.
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Considering that the final number of known infected machines was under 300,000 worldwide prior to the servers being taken down, this issue is being played for massively excessive hype by the media.
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"In distress", my ass.
^ Imagine that...
Less sarcastically, given how long the problem has been known, I have just about zero sympathy for anyone who's actually hit by the server shutdown.
[edit] Also, if the affected machines are out of date on that front, what else are they in desperate need of patching for? When I was working the at the abuse desk at AboveNet, it was a rare day when there were less than 2-3 mail servers in Asia (primarily PRC and S. Korea) that were set to be open relays and were being abused to send spam. The head network guru didn't even bother trying to get them to fix the servers, they just pulled the plug on the internet connection for the offending party(ies).
edited 9th Jul '12 9:23:00 AM by Nohbody
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Oh wow. I remember DNS Changer. That's an old one. Do you know why it was interesting?
It was cross-platform. Yup. It affected OS X as well. There was actually something in my old job where DNS Changer directly impacted the software I was supporting. Fun fun times.
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...Well I'm still online. Guess it was just all BS on the website's part.
A bit strange that the FBI would even do something like this, though. Why not leave it to a company like Norton or Lavasoft to handle the situation, or even the ISP providers themselves?
edited 9th Jul '12 9:35:17 PM by SgtRicko
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There's been a LOT of different entities involved in anti-DNS malware efforts, Ricko, including all of the ones you just mentioned in that sentence. It was originally extremely widespread, but the disinfection campaign has been sufficiently intense that the numbers of infected P Cs have been dropping like Wile E. Coyote off a cliff. There's still some thousands left infected, but compared to the original numbers it's a drop in the bucket. It may seem overhyped now, but a lot of that is because of the 'hype' that helped to mitigate the threat in the first place over the past few months.
As far as sheer danger of consequences go, it's really not THAT special, so I'm assuming that news channels mostly picked up an interest in it as a result of the sheer quantity of victims. Or maybe just because that one company was reporting it, so everyone else felt like they had to, too.
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This was way overdue. Here's the new link:
Well, seeing that I can still go to TV tropes, I'm a-okay.:D
"In distress", my ass.
^^ Another article
from the "related" links pretty much said what I was thinking (and mentioned in less detail in my previous post).
[edit]A couple hundred thousand[/edit] people out of an online population of like a billion (or whatever) people? After 16 months of advance notice, with plenty of free tools to fix the issue (presumably including Windows Update for the Windows crowd, though over a year there's been so many security patches that I have no idea which specific update without doing far more digging than it's really worth)? Not up now, tough shit.
^ At least you have your priorities straight. 
edited 9th Jul '12 4:36:43 PM by Nohbody
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In fact... this is practically over... Whatever damage was done was done...
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To be fair, I wouldn't leave much to Norton right now. :|
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I wouldn't leave much to Norton now or any time in the past since they have existed. Their software has always been terrible.
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It used to at least do its job to an appreciable extent.
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Figured some of you guys might have wanted to see this one, just in case. I'll let the article do most of the talking:
"The problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of more than 570,000 infected computers around the world. When the FBI went in to take down the hackers late last year, agents realized that if they turned off the malicious servers being used to control the computers, all the victims would lose their Internet service.
In a highly unusual move, the FBI set up the safety net. The bureau brought in a private company to install two clean Internet servers to take over for the malicious servers so that people would not suddenly lose their Internet.
The FBI arranged for a private company to run a website — http://www.dcwg.org
— as a place where computer users could go to see if their computer was infected by DNS Changer, and find links to other computer security business sites where they could find fixes for the problem. (If you want a quick check of your computer's status, the FBI-authorized dns-ok.us site is fast — no software is required for the scan.)"
And by the way... the website mentioned that one of the symptoms showing you might have the malware is that you won't be able to visit the free-checkup sites due to the malware causing issues. I tried to visit the US site and, guess what? All I got was the "page could not be displayed" prompt from Internet Explorer. I decided to test some of the other sites, particularly the Australian, German, French, and Dutch sites, and they showed me as clean! So what the heck does that mean?