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Hundreds of thousands must check, fix computers or lose Internet in July due to hacker case
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune / The Associated Press ^ | April 21, 2012 | Lolita C. Baldor

Posted on 04/24/2012 7:08:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer.

Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. In a highly unusual response, the FBI set up a safety net months ago using government computers to prevent Internet disruptions for those infected users. But that system is to be shut down.

The FBI is encouraging users to visit a website run by its security partner, http://www.dcwg.org, that will inform them whether they're infected and explain how to fix the problem. After July 9, infected users won't be able to connect to the Internet...

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Government
KEYWORDS: computers; hackers; internet; internetvirus; julyvirus
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To: eyedigress

You don’t even need software to check.


21 posted on 04/24/2012 7:41:05 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: dynoman
Suicide by Internet! Lets Rock
22 posted on 04/24/2012 7:50:34 PM PDT by Autonomous User ( I guess a liberal and an out-of-work bum look a lot a like, daddy.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sounds like a government scam.


23 posted on 04/24/2012 7:50:48 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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Bookmark.

Because no way in hell am I going to loggon to a government approved website to “check” my PC for a purported kill switch malware.

Why not just give the IRS my checking account PIN number instead of making them search for it?

24 posted on 04/24/2012 8:03:27 PM PDT by sarasmom ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xZsFe6dM3EY)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Ping!


25 posted on 04/24/2012 8:17:30 PM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

bump


26 posted on 04/24/2012 8:59:12 PM PDT by VTenigma
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whatever, before I willingly allow the feds to snoop my puter, if it goes south, will just buy a new one.


27 posted on 04/24/2012 10:29:37 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (Nations are only truly great when it's people are struggling against all odds, growing and expanding)
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