"Hundreds of thousands of Internet users whose computers are infected with a particularly nasty virus will be unable to access the Web starting on Monday.

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. That's a large number, but it's a very small subset of the 1.6 billion PCs worldwide, of which an estimated 339 million are in the United States.
Still, 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."

http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/06/technology/dnschanger/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/what-the-internet-doomsday-virus-is-and-how-to-fix-it/2012/07/05/gJQA67vhPW_story.html

so on july 16th? is that when the Doomsday virus hits?

It already hit. On July 16(?), they're gonna pull the plug on the server, and then the computers that are still infected with the virus will lose their internet access.

i believe they are going to be doing the server shut downs on the 9th.. but here are the sites to go to to see if your comp is infected and what to do
check for virus: http://www.dns-ok.us/
instructions on how to get rid of it if you do have it: www.dcwg.org/fix/

lulz

Good day to be a Macfaggot.

>Implying that there are no viruses designed to infect Macs

Admittedly, the number is far lower as the designers of the viruses often target Windows due to the market share, but Mac viruses do in fact exist. Better install some anti-virus stuff on your Mac before something gets in there :V

>>8 In fact, there was a recent outbreak of a Mac-only virus, called Flashback, which got a lot of users because they relied too much on the safety of having a Mac and didn't use anti-virus software.
As Pintapau said, virus designers target Windows machines more often because they'll be able to infect a larger portion of the market: Mac machines aren't worth it, for virus designers. But as the influence of Macintosh increases, so will the number of virus. So my recommendation is for you to get an anti-virus before your computer is infected.

Also, this whole story is either fake, or terribly planned by the FBI. I mean, why rely on internet articles and bulletin boards when you have control over what the infected people see? Just redirect them to a warning page with instructions on how to act, possibly with a support line.

>>9 Considering this has been going on for a while and there are multiple articles on various sites related to it, I highly doubt this is fake.

>>10 Yes, I am beginning to believe it, given the amount of official articles and webpages on it, but it's still a very poor way to do it. They could redirect us to another page for a few weeks, and only then disconnect the servers. But it has just striked me that they may do that after Monday.

sorry date confused i meant to say July 9th... sorry lol
well thats interesting; hopefully it wont be like that check thing on TV that they did i mean that one was hilarious because everybody freaked and called 911! i was laughing when i heard it on the news.

let's pray we dollars will not be infected, hope is all we need.

Glad I use my Ps3 web browser!

I use my wii ^-^

PS3 and Wii users, don't let your guard down just yet: your ISP may have been infected, in which case you may still lose your connection. Not that there's anything you can do about it, I'm just saying it so you don't freak out if it happens.

Snap Guess Im gonna start using my Ipod alot more often... Unless the virus is can take over that! D:

>>17
You're not serious, are you?

Im downloading all the things i want to do today before this happens. and watch and play it with my Wi-Fi Off.

Almost all my friends are infected
This is going to be interesting

Yay! I'm not infected~

Ahh, thank God. I'm not infected. I still have my internet ;w;

I'm fine

i think i'm not infected two, but still i'm not on my computer just yet, any more news about it?

>>11>>9 What can I say, the FBI isn't what it used to be.

If anyone wants to know, some virus scanning applications cannot detect the Trojan. One of the proven antivirus programs is Microsoft Security Essentials.

Basically anyone who has internet now is not infected ,right?

Damn! I was actually planning on using DNSChanger to join anonymous. I got told it was one of the easiest programs to shut down websites with.

So anyone who has internet now doesn't need to worry?

>>28

The fuck?

>>28
You don't know what a dns changer is... do you?
FYI- DNS can't shut down websites.

Here's some suggested reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System

>>27 yes and no really.

Dns = dedicated network server? Am I right? Do I get a cookie?

>>33 D.omain N.ame S.ystem (DNS)

wait this monday or yesterday?

>>35 Pretty sure yesterday.

IM ALIVE WOO YEAHH HEY YAAAAAA BOKU BOKU DESU FAKKU!!

IM ALIVE WOO YEAHH HEY YAAAAAA BOKU BOKU DESU FAKKU!!

I'm from Estonia. Why am I feeling proud!?

AW SHIT SHIT SHIT! WHY COULDN'T I HAVE SEEN THIS EARLIER IN THE WEEK?! DAMMIT DAMMIT! I think my computer might be infected due to the fact it's OLD and has been hacked into once. WELP TIME TO GET THE RECOVERY DISK OUT.

I was freaked out and then I remembered "Oh wait, my computer didn't have internet until three or so months ago, how could it be infected by anything from last year?" Still was a scare for me and my friends though.

I knew about this long before it happened and it makes me laugh because I was never infected, and I myself have no protection on my computer. Do you think the cyber criminals selected those who were to be infected or just did it at random?

>>42 Probably random.

I got a virus not too long ago for downloading something. Some goddamn scam from some Russion "security" company made my computer a fucking add for their shitty anti-virus wear. This taught me a lesson to be more careful next time.