July 9th, FBI Pulls Plug on Infected PC's (link to self-check)

PRWeb ^ | July 6, 2012 | Unknown

[Stayfree]

On Monday, July 9th, the FBI will pull the plug on internet access to hundreds of thousands of computers infected with a malware Trojan known as DNSChanger. Even if your computer is clean, companies that have compromised systems in their network will be taken offline, hindering their ability to do business and possibly breaking their websites, in what many are referring to as “Internet Doomsday.”

[Carriage Hill]

_... for later.

[Abathar]

Nice site. I often wondered how my system fared, according to this link they said it was very cool, they couldn’t see it or get at it in any of the tests.

Thanks for the cool link.

[USCG SimTech]

FedGov phishing with a gun and a badge.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Or....maybe it’s a scare tactic to get people to go to that link...so they can get your IP and log you in their system?

Exactly.

I'm going to click on a link to a Gubmint sponsored website so they can scan my PC? No thanks.

I am confident that my own machines are disease free and do not need any Federal intrusion to tell me so.

[Delta 21]

Sometimes my tin foil hat works just fine.

[driftdiver]

The link is legit, not to say the chicken little complex may be overboard.

[musicman]

ping

[mkjessup]

First of all, kudos and thanks to Lucky9teen for that advice, and I would suggest taking it a step further and actually blocking that federal website by using your 'hosts file' (on Windows machines), Google up the terms 'hosts file' and 'block websites' and you'll get plenty of methods to do just that.

I would definitely add 'www.dns-ok.us' to your hosts file to prevent even an accidental click on that link.

Screw the feds and their bogus 'let us check your machine' baloney, plenty of other ways to do that by NON-governmental methods.

I don't trust the bastards, do you?

[mkjessup]

The link is legit, not to say the chicken little complex may be overboard.

Yeah, that copy of 0bama's birth certificate that got posted online was real 'legit' too.

You go ahead and trust our federal overseers, I'll check my system with a non-government method.

[virgil]

I cannot understand why anyone who ends up in the ‘Special Servers’ is not send am automatic alert

Would you respond to it? Anyway, if the FBI wanted to take over everybody's computer, would they have them unknowingly download spyware when they use this self check? If it ever came out that the FBI actually was using it to spy on everybody's internet use , they would be on the hook for it. Don't they have to have a warrant to do that too? Plus, what happens when people get new computers? There's no spyware on the new computer.

[boop]

Yeah, I thought about that. If "someone" KNOWS a cyber-attack is coming, and they know the exact date and time, why haven't they fixed it?

BTW, I "checked" my PC and it is (apparently) fine. I did not use the FBI link. Too creepy.

Agree that it seems like a test run to take over the entire internet for "national security" reasons.

[Fire_on_High]

Eh, it’s paranoia. I’ve used the link to check all of my machines, both when it first was posted several months ago and again in the past few days to be sure nothing slipped by in the meanwhile.

Before you get too worked up, ask yourself precisely what it is that you’re afraid of being “logged” for in this case. Absolutely no matter how you examine the issue, I’m finding it impossible to find even one way that checking could be taken as a concession you did something wrong.

Even the best combination of security software could potentially miss something. Caution and prudence are never bad ideas.