Alureon DNSChanger malware

Alureon is a trojan and bootkit which is designed, amongst other things, to steal data by intercepting a system's network traffic and searching it for usernames, passwords and credit card data.According to research by Microsoft, Alureon was the second most active botnet in the second quarter of 2010.(A botnet is a collection of internet-connected computers whose security defenses have been breached and control ceded to an unknown party.)
This piece of software found its way onto hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide late last year. The software was designed to re-direct you away from trusted websites, towards spoof websites in a bid to steal financial and personal information. About a quarter-million computer users around the world are at risk of losing Internet access on Monday because of malicious software at the heart of a hacking scam that U.S. authorities shut down last November.
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