Quote from: Xester on April 29, 2018, 12:24:09 PM

Quote from: redpillorblue on April 28, 2018, 02:31:49 PM

I have been compiling a guide (for everyone and my team) on how to protect yourself from online scammers here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3415026.msg35714276#msg35714276

And I am yet to find an definitive answer to how to protect yourself from DNS Hijacking.

From my understanding, this type of hijack can happen either on your own machine (simple, if your machine is compromised), or from the website level (more sophisticated attack).

Any ideas / tools / methods you use to detect / prevent such attacks?

I have already read your tagged post on this forum before and I agree with you pertaining the Trojans that attacked one's pc, infiltrate and hacked important datas stored in the PC. There was a very famous trojan mining software that enters your computer and mines cryptocurrency without you knowing, aside from that they are accessing your important information on your pc. The best way to protect yourself from that Trojan is to install Bit Defender on your computer. It is effective against Trojan.

Yep, keeping your machine clean with some common sense (like anti viruses and malware protection softwares) keeps this at bay. That sorts it out for first way of DNS hijacking. I am more interested in second way of hijacking, where the DNS servers, somewhere in the world go rogue and start routing to malicious websites.

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