Critical flaw rocks the internet

[copyless]

That sounds like a mean one. I'm glad I recently canged my router settings to 128 bit encryption.

I thank my neighbor for that, since for years I kept it unlocked, until I got a new neighbor that would use it to log on, then I decided not to use the default encryption, but to go to 128 bit.

[Chewy]

the malware infects your router by using the standard login and passwords

encryption won't stop one of your computers from infecting your router

[copyless]

So the password it is speaking of, is not the password you use to set up the router to your computer? I thought this was the one it was using to continously change the DNS.

If it is this password, when I reset mine, it had several options, where you could use any number you choose, or a word or words, or generate a series of numbers, 64bit, 128bit or 256 bit number.

I should not have used the word encryption either way, because what I was speaking of was not encryption, but the size of the number used. Am I right in thinking this was the number it is speaking of?

[kevdriver]

Your name server, at 207.164.234.193, appears to be safe, but make sure the ports listed below aren't following an obvious pattern.
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Requests seen for d23bc2951c85.toorrr.com:
207.164.234.193:56266 TXID=23375
207.164.234.193:54709 TXID=1166
207.164.234.193:58146 TXID=63583
207.164.234.193:63365 TXID=32775
207.164.234.193:54561 TXID=39167


Whewwww.............. That was a scary article. I'm guessing this means I'm safe from this flaw.

[Chewy]

when you surf into your router to set it up and make changes it asks for a login and password, many default ones are admin w/ a blank password, this is what the trojan does and then sets your dns servers thru the router to redirect you to malware sites which reinfect you even after a clean install of the OS

[admin]

Hackers get hold of critical internet flaw

Time to test your DNS to see if it has been patched, and if not, change to a new DNS (www.opendns.org is recommended)