July 9th. could be "internet doomsday"

Have you checked your computers for the “Internet Doomsday Virus”, also known as DNSChanger? You might want to do so before Monday when thousands could lose Internet access. The Federal Bureau of Investigation first gave details about the virus last November, when it announced the arrest of the malware’s authors. The virus, as its name indicates, affected computers’ abilities to correctly access the Internet’s DNS system — essentially, the Internet’s phone book. The virus would redirect Internet users to fake DNS servers, often sending them to fake sites or places that promoted fake products. Once the FBI shut down the operation, it built a safety net of new servers to redirect traffic from those infected with the virus. But that safety net is going offline Monday meaning that anyone who is still infected with the virus will lose access to the Internet unless they remove it from their machine.

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Though the US government limited the damage from the Alureon DNS changer malware attack last November by setting up temporary servers to fix infected machines, those servers are due to be shut down on Monday.

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tk71texas said:

i read somewhere can't remember but only like 277,000 computers are actually infected.....that's a pretty small number

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WASHINGTON (AP) — If you're reading this online, you're fine. The day that was supposed to see thousands of people knocked off the Internet has arrived, but only a few people were affected.
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