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Are you concerned about Monday?

14 years ago

I may have missed any posts about this, but supposedly on Monday morning, you may turn on your computer and have no internet service due to an international virus that is scheduled to hit our computers. I guess ISP's are working to get the "cure" when it's needed--but that part is kind of vague to me.

Anyone else know more about this that you can share?

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User
14 years ago
I haven't heard a thing and don't care. What will be will be.
joann23456
14 years ago
This is something that's been going on for months. There is a virus that will re-direct your computer to a rogue DNS site. Months ago, the FBI set up clean servers to take the traffic being sent to the rogue sites, and on Monday, the servers will stop working.

Use the FBI link below to see if your computer has any issue. It probably doesn't.

Here is a link that might be useful: FBI site to test for rogue DNS
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lindaohnowga
14 years ago
This is the site I used to check to see if my computer is infected. Luckily mine is not. Hope the link posts correctly.

http://www.siteadvisor.com/dns_checker.html

Here is a link that might be useful: Virus checker
Rudebekia
14 years ago
I checked mine. Takes one minute and is worth doing. Nothing worse than a virus.
iowagirl2006
14 years ago
It is not a "virus that will hit Monday"

It is a piece of malware that would have already been on your computer for quite sometime. It redirects you to other websites, not the one you had intended to visit.

The FBI discovered the people behind this and set up servers to keep computers that were affected with DNS Changer connected to the internet. They will shut these servers down on Monday. If you are infected - you will no longer have service since these servers will be gone.

They have been warning people for a year to do a simple check to see if are infected.

The people on the news love to make it sound like Doomsday is approaching. 99% of what I hear them say is misinformation. I wish they could spend 5 minutes to read something to understand what the heck they are reporting.
chisue
14 years ago
Duh...What IS my DNS? The suffix of my email address? My browser?
chisue
14 years ago
Nevermind. I discovered I could go to www.whatismyip.com and find it. I ran the FBI check and am 'clean'.
Jasdip
14 years ago
Here's another site..

www.dns-ok.ca.

Instantly tells you if you're affected or not.
If the banners are green, you're good, if they are red, you should get some maintenance done.

Here is a link that might be useful: A quick check...
golfergrrl
14 years ago
It is a viable threat. I was concerned enough to check my computer. I used dns-ok.ca. It takes 2 seconds.
Cherryfizz
14 years ago
Thanks for the links. I checked and my computer is ok too
glenda_al
14 years ago
I'm okay!
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
14 years ago
We have information on the computer help forums.
You would probably know if you were infected because they have set up many sites for detection including google, so if you are infected google would show you a message telling you, along with many other sites.
Plus if you do your windows updates as you should their malicious removal tool would have taken care of it, and I am sure that you all have a good updated antivirus program that you run regular scans with and they all have the ability to detect and remove it.

As mentioned the infections happened long ago, this is NOT a new virus that is hitting. I have no idea how that misinformation got started but unfortunately it has.
The only ones that will be affected by the government shut down are those that have the dns changer infection, so go to the fbi check sites and it will tell you instantly your status.
This also can infect routers so be sure to check with a computer connected to the router.

Likely the majority affected will be in foreign countries.

I suggest googling dns changer shut down, you will find thousands of articles about it.
emagineer
14 years ago
The news today mentioned 45,000 users. But did not say if this was actual users, servers or ISPs. I think there is some confusion about how this plays out. One story mentioned that your ISP would have contacted you if there was a problem. Which tells me it is their servers involved. Call me confused. Plus questioning all of us going to the sites to check and our computer info is then on some data base?
oldgardener_2009
14 years ago
Use the linked site and check to see if it has the problem. It's easy, only takes a minute.
emma
14 years ago
I did the test and mine is not infected.
linda_in_iowa
14 years ago
I did the test and I am OK.
blfenton
14 years ago
I'm good.
wildchild
14 years ago
Not worried due to same as raven's post.

The checkers are feel good measures. If you have an unknown redirect virus they're useless.

Update your computer and you will be fine.
Fun2BHere
14 years ago
I checked my DNS months ago against the list and mine wasn't affected.

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