[Woodman]

FWIW I'm having no issues on my local home network (w/about 15 devices connected), but the Internet keeps going from reasonably fast to sluggish for no apparent reason.

Two days ago, I went to the cash machine at TD Bank. It took about minutes to recognise that I had inserted my card, each step took 2 - 3 minutes and the whole transaction wast at least 15 minutes. I have never seen a banking system so slow since ATM’s were first introduced. I was sure it was going to crash or they were under attack. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but something stinks and it's getting ripe. I'm in the New York Metro area.

[Lazamataz]

Ok. This is the first glimmer of confirmation. Maybe we are simply bleeding-edge at detecting this.

[djf]

I’m noticing the same thing, and it seems as though there is something weird going on with the DNS servers on the net.

I scanned both my home machines with Malwarebytes two days ago and they are squeaky clean.

But honestly EVERY machine I’ve ever dug into for a friend is infected.

[Charles Martel]

FWIW I'm having no issues on my local home network (w/about 15 devices connected), but the Internet keeps going from reasonably fast to sluggish for no apparent reason.

I've been seeing that same problem for a week or so now. I attributed it to a bunch of people getting new video-streaming hardware (laptops, iPads, Apple TV, Roku, PopcornTime, etc.) for Christmas. Or maybe someone at my ISP just likes to irritate me.