Help, how do i delete DNSchanger?

I'm glad to have been able to give a little help after all the help I got here from eveyone.

Just a note on why trying to type wq may not have worked. Was the cursor at the beginning of the line? When I first did it, it was at the beginning of the line and it wouldn't work, just kept getting the annoying ping. I scrolled to the end of the line, typed wq and it worked.

Actually, I think what I did was scroll to the end to delete it with dd and then when I typed wq, it worked.

wjrcbrown wrote:

I am still concerned as to why the wq business did not work

Welcome to the weird, wacky and nerdy world of Unix in general and the VI editor in particular. When you did the sudo crontab -e command, you invoked root's crontab configuration file, to be edited with the default editor, vi. Once in there and after the dd command which erases the offending lines, in order to write the changes and quit, the command begins with a colon, that Feisty did not include in the recipe, that is :wq

The alternate command sudo crontab -r doesn't bother to edit the file at all, just zaps it and begone.

But it's good that you're peachy now and won't be affected next Monday when the FBI shuts down the servers.

Ahhhh, ok. Thanks Courcoul. It's good to know.