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Australia's government has created a website which detects the presence, or otherwise, of DNSChanger, a nasty piece of malware which the sites says “... changes a user's Domain Name System (DNS) settings, enabling criminals to direct unsuspecting internet users to fraudulent websites and otherwise interfere with their web …

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  1. john jones 1
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    how about signing the AU root so DNS security can be applied ?

    how about signing the AU root so DNS security can be applied ?

    seems like they actually might be waking up and we might have a chance to apply dns security...

    it would be nice !

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  2. Term
    WTF?

    Why can't the FBI do this?

    Surely the FBI can display a message telling people that their machine is infected and it'll stop working soon?

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  3. DM2012
    FAIL

    Dan

    How about at least making the website https with a verifiable certificate?

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