[Full-Disclosure] Mystery DNS Changes

Nick FitzGerald nick at virus-l.demon.co.uk
Sat Oct 4 07:03:29 BST 2003


"Mike O'Connor" <oconnor123 at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> I have the described behaviour when visiting google.com, but have
> neither the aolfix.exe ...

Perhaps because it deletes itself after making the changes, as 
mentioned in several online virus descriptions?

> ... nor registry entries, on my XP box.  Where would
> one find the registry entry for the current DNS(s)?

I makes both registry and HOSTS fiel changes.  The "google.com effect" 
you refer to is part of the latter.


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