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Originally Posted by KC Fish

I'm usually anti-conspiracy theory. But I did find it slightly odd that the FBI would step in to a matter like this, and even go so far as to take down the malware DNS servers and replace them with their own. For one, why replace it with their own? Are we to believe they did this out of the goodness of their heart to help people? Why this malware and not others? Second, why not just shut the DNS servers off in the first place? People would lost internet, but that should be acceptable loss seeing as how they were using a fake server in the first place. If they got that malware, they're likely to have more and need to scan their computer anyway. Losing internet routing would encourage that, instead of rerouting the user automatically without the user knowing they were exploited. And last, if the FBI was in control of infected people's DNS routing, why not just route everyone to a page explaining how to fix their faulty DNS? That would be completely simple. For every infected machine, just route every address to a page on an FBI server explaining how to fix it. No scan tool necessary.

Can you hear the helicopters yet?