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The Help Desk => Computer Related Discussions & Questions => Topic started by: CG6468 on April 21, 2012, 11:04:46 AM

Title: Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July
Post by: CG6468 on April 21, 2012, 11:04:46 AM: Quote
Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July

AP Article

http://sync.sympatico.ca/news/hundreds_of_thousands_may_lose_internet_in_july/d41718e5
Title: Re: Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July
Post by: CG6468 on April 21, 2012, 11:12:33 AM: My machine is not infected.
Title: Re: Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July
Post by: thundley4 on April 21, 2012, 06:27:25 PM: Or is this a government scam to get people to install tracking software on their computers?

:tinfoil2:
Title: Re: Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July
Post by: Ballygrl on April 21, 2012, 06:33:16 PM: Quote from: thundley4 on April 21, 2012, 06:27:25 PM
Or is this a government scam to get people to install tracking software on their computers?

:tinfoil2:

I hate to say it but that was my 1st thought.
Title: Re: Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July
Post by: Ballygrl on April 21, 2012, 06:38:19 PM: Looks like a lot of people at Yahoo feel the same way:

http://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-thousands-may-lose-internet-july-181324701--finance.html
Title: Re: Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July
Post by: thundley4 on April 21, 2012, 07:41:45 PM: Quote from: Ballygrl on April 21, 2012, 06:38:19 PM
Looks like a lot of people at Yahoo feel the same way:

http://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-thousands-may-lose-internet-july-181324701--finance.html

I run antivirus checks weekly , along with scans for other malware.
Title: Re: Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July
Post by: rich_t on April 22, 2012, 08:24:54 AM: I haven't seen any MS security alerts for this alleged virus.
Title: Re: Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July
Post by: CG6468 on April 22, 2012, 08:41:46 AM: Quote from: thundley4 on April 21, 2012, 07:41:45 PM

I run antivirus checks weekly , along with scans for other malware.

I run Malware Bytes finders and Spybot every day, the virus check twice weekly.
Title: Re: Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July
Post by: BlueStateSaint on April 25, 2012, 07:53:50 AM: Quote from: Ballygrl on April 21, 2012, 06:33:16 PM
I hate to say it but that was my 1st thought.

As it was mine.
Title: Re: Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July
Post by: FiddyBeowulf on April 30, 2012, 02:35:57 PM: Quote
The number of victims is hard to pinpoint, but the FBI believes that on the day of the arrests, at least 568,000 unique Internet addresses were using the rogue servers. Five months later, FBI estimates that the number is down to at least 360,000. The U.S. has the most, about 85,000, federal authorities said.
Big whoop. It was an interesting story although I do not know why the gov't would care about people losing their internet because they were not smart enough to install a good anti-virus.