[QUOTE="WASHINGTON AP"] WASHINGTON (AP) Despite repeated alerts, 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. 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. According to the FBI, 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. People 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. The problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of more than 570,000 infected computers around the world. When the FBI went in to take down the hackers late last year, agents realized that if they turned off the malicious servers being used to control the computers, all the victims would lose their Internet service. In a highly unusual move, the FBI set up a safety net. They brought in a private company to install two clean Internet servers to take over for the malicious servers so that people would not suddenly lose their Internet. The temporary Internet system they set up, however, will be shut down at 12:01 a.m. EDT Monday, July 9. ___ Online: To check and clean computers: http://www.dcwg.org ArticleAll you really need to do is click on this link to see if you're safe or not. I suggest doing so as you may not know you have Malware and could be shut down from the internet if not fixed in time. What do you think about this? Good move on the part of the FBI or no and are you safe?
Well I bought my computer 7 months ago and I don't visit attack sites on it. I'm going to assume that I'm okay. Microsoft Security Essentials is running in the background as well. If I magically lose my internet, I guess I'll know what happened.
People 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. WASHINGTON AP
What am I missing here? Why do they have to call the ISP to solve this?
How do we know that link you posted isnt actually a link to the virus? You clever one, you!
sonicare
It isn't. He linked us to site that is linked to in a site associated with the FBI that is linked to in the yahoonews article. I clicked on it earlier today from yahoo news.
[QUOTE="WASHINGTON AP"] People 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. Baranga
What am I missing here? Why do they have to call the ISP to solve this?
The malware gave the hackers control of their victims internet connections, when the FBI and Estonian police found out about the plot they seized the servers run by the hackers, because of the malware hacked computers access the internet through the hackers' servers which were shut down by the FBI. The FBI replaced the hackers'servers with temporary servers before shutting down the hackers' servers in order to avoid having victims lose internet access. On Monday the FBI will take down the temporary servers which means that computers that are conneected to the internet via those servers will lose access to the internet. I'm guessing contacting the ISP will allow the ISP to connect you to one of their servers and remotely attempt to clean out the malware infection on the hacked computers.
[QUOTE="WASHINGTON AP"] People 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. Baranga
What am I missing here? Why do they have to call the ISP to solve this?
basically what they did is make the infected computers go through their servers i wanna say thier DNS servers instead of the ISPs. So if your infected you are literally being connected to the Internet by them and the can intercept anything from you. If the FBI were to shutdown those servers all the infected computers would suddenly stop working because they are looking for those fake servers instead of the real ones.
How do we know that link you posted isnt actually a link to the virus? You clever one, you!
whipassmt
It isn't. He linked us to site that is linked to in a site associated with the FBI that is linked to in the yahoonews article. I clicked on it earlier today from yahoo news.
How do we know that the FBI isn't actually spreading the virus?! How do we know that you're not in on it, too! :o
Try to to delete the malware with your antivirus software (i.e. have the software run a scan). Otherwise wait till monday and if you can't connect to the net, call your ISP (comcast or at&t or whoever you buy internet from).
[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"]I got the red. WHAT DO?!whipassmt
Try to to delete the malware with your antivirus software (i.e. have the software run a scan). Otherwise wait till monday and if you can't connect to the net, call your ISP (comcast or at&t or whoever you buy internet from). I can't connect now. Please advise.
How do we know that link you posted isnt actually a link to the virus? You clever one, you!
MetroidPrimePwn
It isn't. He linked us to site that is linked to in a site associated with the FBI that is linked to in the yahoonews article. I clicked on it earlier today from yahoo news.
How do we know that the FBI isn't actually spreading the virus?! How do we know that you're not in on it, too! :o
[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"]I got the red. WHAT DO?!SolidSnake35
Try to to delete the malware with your antivirus software (i.e. have the software run a scan). Otherwise wait till monday and if you can't connect to the net, call your ISP (comcast or at&t or whoever you buy internet from). I can't connect now. Please advise. Ah so I see that you were joking about the Red. good.
The link doesn't work for me, no site comes up. I'd be happy to click on a Google, CNet, or Intel site or other site with a trusted name such as those if they would host a test for the virus. But I can't find any of them other than the link in the op. Maybe it will work later today. Edit: nm I went to the home page or main page hosting the link and found a working link, green.
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