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You're kidding right? I honestly burst out with a laugh when I read this. In what world do you live in where Microsoft seizing control of a single dynamic DNS p
by Omniusaspirer 12y ago
You're kidding right? I honestly burst out with a laugh when I read this. In what world do you live in where Microsoft seizing control of a single dynamic DNS provider will "prevent malware" (even in the short term)?
It's not like this motion has created some insurmountable wall that malware creators can't possibly work around.
- smsm42 12y agoIt of course did not create insurmountable wall, but many malware platforms rely on free DNS services for establishing communications, and if particular strain is hardcoded to use no-ip, the instances that rely on it would not be able to establish the connections and thus would not be controlled by botnet owner anymore, at least for the time it takes to either deliver update by other means (provided such means are coded in particular strain) or re-infect the machine with different strain of malware. Of course, once malware authors know no-ip is no longer their friend, they'd move on to use different services, but the instances that were produced before that may very well be disrupted.