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Hi,
This is repeat of a situation we had many years ago. Unfortunately, the old discussion thread seems to have been deleted.
Symptom: images don't load, or take extremely long to load (over 15 minutes on dsl connections). Affected are foreign serve...
Hi, Is it possible to see of any of my IoT devices or PCs was hijacked and used in the DYN attack, or does the malware bypass the opendns config that I have set up in the router?
It Looks like Avast is interpreting the opendns redirect as a trojan.
If you put any incorrect URL or a blocked URL into your browser address line then Avast warns:
URL: http://www.website-unavailable.com/?wc
Infection: JS:Redirector-BOB [Trj]
It would be great if the opendns dashboard could show warning us if a PC was infected by the latest big surf-by virus spread by yahoo.
http://blog.fox-it.com/2014/01/03/malicious-advertisements-served-via-yahoo/
But as a temporary measure I checked ...
Hi,
I subscribe to a video streaming service, but there are times when the film freezes for a few seconds before continuing, despite a 50mbit/s conned triton.
Could this be related to opendns or does opendns only play a role for the first request sen...
Hi Rotblitz,
It's not a rumour. This was discussed and analyzed in a very lengthy and detailed thread in the opendns forum in 2011/2012.
But you're right, maybe there's a different root-cause even though the symptoms and cure are identical. But sinc...
Thanks Matt, that explains it well. I was also wondering if malware can bypass the opendns address configured on the router by addressing a DNS server directly.
Hi Rotblitz,
Thanks for your answer. In this case i wasn't concerned about my data being compromised but I didn't want my hardware to be abused for an attack on anyone else.
I thought that opendns might be able to detect the work of a malware bot. e....
It's more of a general question, about whether streaming continuously uses opendns in some way, or just for the very first lookup?
By the way, I tried configuring the router to routing the DNS to Google instead of OpenDNS and that deteriorated the pe...