Malware may knock thousands off Internet on Monday (DNS Changer Virus)

[DarkAngel]

@ A_A I understand, but mi still nuh trust dem, those people live by the mantra " never let a good crisis go to waste"

[marl30]

I dual boot with Linux, so won't affect me, though I see it as just another propaganda scare tactic. Ever so often we hear about these kinds of mass threats, and they never seem to materialize.

[Arch_Angel]

I dual boot with Linux, so won't affect me, though I see it as just another propaganda scare tactic. Ever so often we hear about these kinds of mass threats, and they never seem to materialize.

You want it to?

And yes, it's a scare tactic to get persons to check their pc's for the malware and clean it up.

[marl30]

You want it to?

And yes, it's a scare tactic to get persons to check their pc's for the malware and clean it up.

My Virus database is always up to date in Windows. I'm not worried. I expect to wake up and hear tomorrow that nothing happened, and it was just a big hoax.

[DarkAngel]

It's now 10 AM Monday morning, what's going on now with this issue?

[kev007_2002]

i tried getting on the site to check.

it appears that the checking site is down

[topanaris]

Yawn......... just had a weird dream.... something above viruses mass spread infection.......... doom and gloom..... end of world....... wow been having a lot of these lately............ for about 15 years...............

[Arch_Angel]

Maybe you guys mis-understood. The affected persons would be end-users, not big corporate companies with websites. And if uncle joe internet went down because of this malware today, it wouldn't make CNN headline news.

From what I read, it was about 300k persons who still had the malware on their system that were going to be affected. News reports said ISP's have also been identifying and calling these affected users to alert them.

So it wasn't any end of the world scenario. Just a warning that needed to be heard.

EDIT: Here is an update: FBI Shuts Down DNSChanger Servers

As expected, the FBI today shut down the DNSChanger servers, potentially cutting off Internet access to those with infected PCs.

Despite the hysteria, however, security firm F-Secure said things appear to be under control, thanks to ISP intervention.

"Many global operators are keeping their ‪#DNSChanger‬ victims online, even after FBI stopped. We do not expect much noise about this today," F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen tweeted today.

[topanaris]

I know im just saying ever so often some virus alert comes out to spook the masses - remember conficker?