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Sunday, July 8, 2012

Avoid Monday’s Malware Internet Attack with these FBI Tips

The headline sounds pretty scary, but a malware called DNSChanger could knock thousands off the Internet Monday. Here's how to make sure your computer is not one.

Monday could be D-Day for your computer, but then again, we’ve heard that before. Monday’s threat is a malware virus called DNSChanger, which threatens to lock out tens of thousands of people from Internet access. It also has the potential to search out private information. Sorry to be a source of a culture of fear, but it's better safe than sorry, right? According to the FBI, the trojan virus will divert users from legitimate ISP servers to malicious sites that will alter their Domain Namer Server, which is the unique address of your computing device. Without access to the correct DNS and DNS servers, you would not be able to access websites, send email, or use any other Internet services. A Huffington Post report citing FBI data …

Malware: Internet Lost Monday?

Internet users have been alerted to check for a bug that will leave them nothing but error pages when they pull up a browser on July 9. Here is how to check to see if your computer is infected and at risk.

About 24 hours are left to check desktops and laptops for a computer virus that originally stole computers' Domain Name Systems (DNS) — the Internet service that converts URLs, such as AOL.com or Yahoo.com, into numerical addresses that computers use to communicate. Last November, FBI officials arrested the virus’ creators, after a two-year investigation dubbed Operation Ghost Click. Government officials temporarily took over the gained computer authorizations to deploy clean DNS servers, allowing infected machines to still access the Internet. That stop-gap measure ends Monday morning, July 9. On a national basis, authorities this week indicated 60,000-plus American laptops and desktops still were infected with the notorious DNSChanger …

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