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From: "Gary Britt"
I thought the router set the DNS servers to be used and not something on
the local machine?
Gary
"Glenn Meadows" wrote in message
news:44a03ee4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Found an attack that I've not been able to have any virus/spyware scan
> detect, Wareout. It re-directs web searches through a set of dns servers
> in the Ukraine.
>
> The boss's laptop was doing that, and also, it manually changed his DNS
> servers to 85.245.x.x, which started to restrict his access to some other
> corporate B to B sites.
>
> Took some time to find the source of the problem, but the info at
> Majorgeeks.com allowed me to clean the laptop in about 45 minutes.
>
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> Glenn M.
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