Thousands of PCs to lose Internet access today
Blown out of proportion.
The malware was pretty smart in redirecting users through a different server. Not only did they try to benefit from monitoring HTTP traffic routed through proxies, they served ads through these proxies to cash in on the botnet even if no passwords or sensitive information was stolen. Although wrong, you cannot but help appreciate the idea behind the attack.
I initially thought that major ISPs were contacted to remove folks and their accounts from their servers and that just did not make sense. This is media fluff and that makes much more sense.
I sometimes feel that Viruses are made by Anti-Virus company so as they have a job to do
Evidence ? This may well be true for some companies but I am not sure how it applies to the DNS redirection virus.