Jul 7 - Malware may knock thousands off Internet on Monday

Malware may knock thousands off Internet on Monday - Motiweightion.com

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Hundreds of thousands of Internet users whose computers are infected with a particularly n@sty virus will be unable to access the Web starting on Monday.

To check whether your computer is infected, CLICK HERE.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation will shut down Internet servers that it temporarily set up to support those affected by malicious software, called DNSChanger. Turning off those servers will knock all those still infected offline.

Over the past five years, a group of six Estonian cybercriminals infected about 4 million computers around the world with DNSChanger. The malware redirected infected users’ Web searches to spoofed sites with malicious advertisements.

In November 2011, the FBI and some overseas partners arrested those responsible, commandeered their servers, and attempted to warn those affected to get rid of the virus.

The FBI did not immediately take down the rogue servers, as infected computers would have lost Internet access, an FBI spokesman said.

To remedy the problem, the FBI had the nonprofit Internet Systems Consortium set up temporary servers. That way, computer owners would have time to get rid of their malware.

The servers were supposed to be shut down in March, but hundreds of thousands remained infected. Nearly 304,000 computers worldwide (about 70,000 in the United States) still had the virus in mid-June, according to the FBI’s latest report.

The FBI decided to give people even more time to check for the malware, extending the deadline until July. The agency now says the time has come to cut the cord, and the emergency servers will be shut down on Monday.

Though the FBI tried to send notifications to those infected, it could not identify all of them, a spokesman said.

To help the users still infected, the agency laid out a step-by-step plan on how to check to see if your computer has the virus.

How did this all happen?

The servers the cybercriminals set up redirected search traffic to their own rogue servers, bypassing Google, Microsoft’s Bing or other search engines’ servers. Users would be shown fake search results that sent them to spoofed websites with manipulated online ads.

For example, when a user searched for Netflix and clicked on the fake search result, he or she would instead be redirected to an unrelated website called “BudgetMatch.” If a user searched for ESPN and clicked through, DNSChanger would replace Dr. Pepper 10 ads on ESPN’s website with an ad for a timeshare business.

The fraudsters made $14 million through those illegal ads, the FBI said.

The malware also prevented users from updating their operating systems or anti-virus software, which may have detected the virus.

Facebook and Google joined the awareness efforts by alerting users whose devices appear to be infected. Both sites display warnings and provide links to help get rid of the malware.

my mate had this back in 2010.

annoying as !!.

Avast keeps me from getting that !!. [pic] Plus I don't go anywhere but like 3-4 sites I KNOW are okay...Doing !! you shouldn't be doing = Getting !! like this...

i think this some bull!!...smells like illuminati to me

Where to go to get your system checked again?

Could have sworn i went to that site to check this !! a few weeks back. Or is this separate attack?

Either way, I'm still clean, pleyboi.[pic]

Actually that site scanned and took all your information to
DO NOT GO THERE, do you even know who runs that site?,
you falling for the trap.

All you have to do is make the DNS automatic and that's it
you shouldn't have anything manual there anyways, this entire PSYOP
IS BEING DONE FOR A LATER SITUATION.

avast plus malware bytes and you good niccas be spending 100s on ''top of the line security'' lmao

im ok


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Was just coming to say this.

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You act as if our cookies and histories aren't being scanned otherwise though.

Your ISP has all that !! for sure but FBI is not in your business like that, not yet anyways.

This whole situation is just weird/random and not even that big of a deal it isn't the entire internet
getting shutdown, it just 60,000 or so computers affected. FBI with this move alone are showing you the power they have over the internet.

This hacker stuff sounds more like a test run operation, if a bigger internet attack happens they can now shut down the entire internet "to prevent spreading".

[pic]Who ever let the FBI/NSA scan their devices/pc and got the "ok ya clean" well of course that was the point to see how many would be dumb enough to let them scan ya system, you won't find anybody affected by this, it will never be talked about ever again in the news.

All of this was just a psyOp and who knows how many millions of sheep went with it well the DNS OK site and the other DWS.ORG( or something like that ) has all the data on that, all the IPs/ISP Info a flash copy of your entire system.

How many were scared enough about never having the internet that they would not research a site doing DNS/System scanning firstly before doing it just because the media told you to "DO IT NOW OMG! NO MORE INTERNET AHHH!", it had to be in the millions.

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A fool falls for everything. An by the amount of people that hit the fudz website. They know America has millions of them

Other companies connected to DNS-OK:







NeuStar is a public company based in Sterling Virginia.....




I wonder how close that is to Langley?

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I been tellin my niccas its total bull!!. no way they can just shut off the internet like that. its decentralized, meaning if half the world get !!ed up there will still be internet. Anyways its monday and all my !! still work. Oh and if u clicked on that !! they was tellin you to go to then you dumb as hell, they just took all your info and gained your ip.

Hmm...I did get this little wanna be fake FBI pop up on the home comp a few days ago, but I just deleted the temp files and it went away. Plus, scanned & all that and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.