James Delahunty
24 May 2012 2:22
Google hopes to warn 500,000 within a week.
DNSChanger is malware that infected millions of computers around the world. As its name suggests, it changed the DNS settings on a users' computer to use malicious DNS servers instead of what they'd normally use. It also could change the DNS settings of a router or wireless access point if it was using the default user and password as a login to the web interface.
There have been several websites setup to detect if DNSChanger has modified either the DNS settings of a computer or a router, and now Google has decided to participate.
If you search Google and it detects that your DNS settings have possibly been modified by DNSChanger, it will show the following warning: