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The news, since the past couple of days has been largely about how come July 9th, systems infected with the dreaded DNSChanger virus may be pulled down. July 9, 2012 marks the end of the court order sought for by the FBI, instead of the initial March 8 deadline, in a bid to give users more time to ensure that their systems are not affected by the virus. Now, a blog post by Marco, Kaspersky Lab Expert sheds more light on how one should go about ensuring the smooth functioning of their system. He begins with explaining, "Computers in the internet have their own address – the IP-address. There are two versions:
IPv4 which is a 32-bit address e.g. 195.122.169.23 and IPv6 which is a 128-bit address e.g. 2001:db8:85a3:8d3:1319:8a2e:370:7347
Attempting to make it easier to operate, once the scheduled server shutdown happens, the post adds that to check if one has been affected by the DNSChanger virus, then they can manually check the DNS server IPs. So, basically if your system is among those affected then you can change your DNS entries to the free DNS servers from Google (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). OpenDNS also offers two such servers (208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220). These changes can be made to either your router or your Windows installation. You’ll find these settings under the network adapter settings under Windows’ Control Panel.
and how to use google dns ? okay this for WIN XP
Open control panel > network connections > Select your active internet connection and right click on it and click on the properties > select to TCP/IP then click properties > then select to use following DNS server > then enter in these two number
Prefered DNs server : 8.8.8.8
alternative dns server : 8.8.4.4
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IPv4 which is a 32-bit address e.g. 195.122.169.23 and IPv6 which is a 128-bit address e.g. 2001:db8:85a3:8d3:1319:8a2e:370:7347
Attempting to make it easier to operate, once the scheduled server shutdown happens, the post adds that to check if one has been affected by the DNSChanger virus, then they can manually check the DNS server IPs. So, basically if your system is among those affected then you can change your DNS entries to the free DNS servers from Google (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). OpenDNS also offers two such servers (208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220). These changes can be made to either your router or your Windows installation. You’ll find these settings under the network adapter settings under Windows’ Control Panel.
and how to use google dns ? okay this for WIN XP
Open control panel > network connections > Select your active internet connection and right click on it and click on the properties > select to TCP/IP then click properties > then select to use following DNS server > then enter in these two number
Prefered DNs server : 8.8.8.8
alternative dns server : 8.8.4.4
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