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Post by toni on Jul 7, 2012 10:16:08 GMT -5
Fox News link: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/05/malware-may-knock-thousands-off-internet-on-monday/WASHINGTON – The warnings about the Internet problem have been splashed across Facebook and Google. Internet service providers have sent notices, and the FBI set up a special website. But tens of thousands of Americans may still lose their Internet service Monday unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their machines more than a year ago. Despite repeated alerts, the number of computers that probably are infected is more than 277,000 worldwide, down from about 360,000 in April. Of those still infected, the FBI believes that about 64,000 are in the United States. Users whose computers are still infected Monday will lose their ability to go online, and they will have to call their service providers for help deleting the malware and reconnecting to the Internet. To check whether a computer is infected, users can visit a website run by the group brought in by the FBI: www.dcwg.org . *this is the link the Fox news media recommends too* see link at top. I first looked over the internet myself to see if this was true, because I've grown super paranoid or rather quite dis-trusting about well...so much anymore. And this IS true.
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Post by toni on Jul 7, 2012 10:31:56 GMT -5
A short cut to quick check your DNS. www.dcwg.org/detect/An industry wide team has developed easy “are you infected” web sites. They are a quick way to determine if you are infected with DNS Changer. Each site is designed for any normal computer user to browse to a link, follow the instructions, and see if they might be infected. Each site has instructions in their local languages on the next steps to clean up possible infections. For example, the www.dns-ok.us/ will state if you are or are not infected (see below).
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