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Warning: your Internet may not work on Monday (how to detect and fix malware infection)

Posted on 07/07/2012 6:55:17 AM PDT by Innovative

An estimated 300,000 computers, most of them in the United States, Italy and India, could be infected and lose their Internet service, Queen's University associate professor Thomas Dean said Friday.

Dean said Canadians can go to www.dcwg.org to check if their computers are infected and take appropriate measures.

If computers have been infected due to the scam, they haven't been able to perform anti-virus software or system updates, leaving them vulnerable to other malware, said Dean, who teaches in Queen's University's department of electrical and computer engineering.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; computers; dnnnnschanger; dns; dnschanger; hoax; internet; internetvirus; linux; malware; notbreakingnews; scam; vanity
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If you are infected you will lose internet connectivity on Mon.

To check for infection and fix it, go to:

http://www.dcwg.org/

There are other articles on the subject also, I just picked this one because it had a more attention getting title. Here is another one with more technical detail, but all you need is the link above.

How to detect and fix a machine infected with DNSChanger. The FBI will be closing the DNSChanger network on Monday, after which thousands worldwide are expected to no longer be able to access the Internet.

1 posted on 07/07/2012 6:55:24 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: Admin Moderator

Link to original article:

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Warning+your+Internet+work+Monday/6899081/story.html

Sorry — I seem to have forgotten to enter it.

Also, it’s from the Vancouver Sun.


2 posted on 07/07/2012 6:59:23 AM PDT by Innovative (None are so blind that will not see.)
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To: Innovative

“Sorry — I seem to have forgotten to enter it.

Also, it’s from the Vancouver Sun.”
**

I wouldn’t link to that POS anti-American “newspaper” if I were you. I know, I lived there..


3 posted on 07/07/2012 7:12:47 AM PDT by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: max americana

My computer sez not confgured to run on a rouge network. I guess that is good, right?


4 posted on 07/07/2012 7:15:36 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Innovative

Call me crazy, but I’ll take my chances rather than go to any site that has any connection to our government.


5 posted on 07/07/2012 7:20:24 AM PDT by Josephat (`)
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To: Innovative

...they haven’t been able to perform anti-virus software or system updates...


Haha..jokes on them I don’t have any of that.

Actually, I back everything up. I don’t worry about my $150 used laptop getting damaged.


6 posted on 07/07/2012 7:25:51 AM PDT by Leep (Enemy of the StatistI)
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To: Innovative
Just go to www.dns-ok.us

That should put your mind at rest.

7 posted on 07/07/2012 7:29:36 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: Innovative
Monday
8 posted on 07/07/2012 7:30:10 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: Innovative
To check for infection and fix it, go to:

And just how much do they charge your credit card for this "service", fixing something they created as a money maker?

9 posted on 07/07/2012 7:31:43 AM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of LibertyI'm st! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Josephat

Like they aren’t watching you already. Haven’t you seen those black helicopters hanging around your house?


10 posted on 07/07/2012 7:33:08 AM PDT by Cherokee Conservative (If a tree falls over in the woods, and then snaps back upright as a joke, do the squirrels laugh?)
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To: JimRed

There is NO CHARGE.

If you are infected, you WILL LOSE INTERNET CONNECTIVITY on Monday.

And you can’t get it back until you remove the malware, which will be hard if you can’t get to the internet to get instructions.


11 posted on 07/07/2012 7:36:18 AM PDT by Innovative (None are so blind that will not see.)
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To: Innovative
Are Your DNS Settings OK?

The malicious Rove viruses changed some peoples DNS settings to use computers they operated.

Compare your DNS settings with the known malicious Rove DNS settings listed below:

As in "Rove, you magnificent b@$t@rd"?

12 posted on 07/07/2012 7:38:00 AM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of LibertyI'm st! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: max americana

Do you prefer the Washington Post?

Computer virus could disrupt Internet access for some users next week

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/computer-virus-could-disrupt-internet-access-for-some-users-next-week/2012/07/06/gJQAJFEhRW_story.html


13 posted on 07/07/2012 7:40:30 AM PDT by Innovative (None are so blind that will not see.)
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To: Innovative

So, are cell phones with internet magically immune?


14 posted on 07/07/2012 7:45:23 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Josephat

You do realize of course that the back bone of the internet runs through government servers and literally every single thing you do on the internet goes through a connection to our government right?


15 posted on 07/07/2012 7:45:32 AM PDT by discostu (Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.)
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To: Innovative

Thanks. I’m a suspicious SOB who believes in life at hard labor for hackers and virus creators. After I get to kick their butts, that is!

Checked it, got a green screen.


16 posted on 07/07/2012 7:46:01 AM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of LibertyI'm st! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Yorlik803
My computer sez not confgured to run on a rouge network.
How about green, yellow or blue? :)
17 posted on 07/07/2012 7:51:18 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Innovative; Admin Moderator

This story has been waaaaay over-hyped. It certainly shouldn’t be wasting a BREAKING NEWS slot on FR. It’s a very small number of machines, I’ve seen estimates of as few as 25,000 — mostly Canadian. And frankly you should be glad if this does happen because it forces you to attend to a serious malware problem that your computer is infected with. But the small number of computers this affects doesn’t justify the sensational stories the media have been whipping up.


18 posted on 07/07/2012 8:00:49 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Innovative
My computer passed the "OK" check but the response went on to talk about possible other problems to do with high speed connections such as those used by small and home offices (SOHO).

"The DNSChanger malware is capable of changing the DNS server settings within SOHO routers that have the default username and password provided by the manufacturer."

The crack technical support at my DSL provider knows nothing beyond passing me quotes from the document that already have.

What is a SOHO to do? What user name and password are they talking about?

19 posted on 07/07/2012 8:20:31 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Yorlik803

“My computer sez not confgured to run on a rouge network.”

Ah! But is it configured to run on a lipstick network?


20 posted on 07/07/2012 8:27:47 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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