Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July

AP / King5.com ^ | 4-20-12 | Lolita C. Baldo

[bgill]

If you send me $5000 for my Nigerian cousin’s surgery, I can get you to the right website.

I also have a bridge and some ocean view property in Arizona for sale if anyone’s interested.

[paul51]

Well, I'm expecting $28,000,000 from nigeria any day now so I may as well give them all a try

[JRandomFreeper]

And I'm a damn good cook. A little too old to stand on my feet 14 hours a day anymore. But I still keep my hand in.

/johnny

[TomGuy]

Anonymous was supposed to shut down the Internet a few Saturdays ago.

He/she/it didn't.

[cynwoody]

Sorry. It seems to end near San Antonio, Texas.

The IP 98.129.229.16 falls in a block (98.129.0.0/16) that belongs to Rackspace Hosting, which is headquartered in San Antonio. They also operate data centers in Dallas, Chicago, Virginia, Hong Kong, and the UK.

The domain belongs to a Barry Greene, of Cupertino.

[Secret Agent Man]

Oh yeah I’m going to an FBI website for help....

[Lancey Howard]

Did you forget a sarcasm tag, or did you really fall for the scam?

LOL.. Sometimes you (hopefully) don't need a sarcasm tag.

[Secret Agent Man]

He didn’t put the /sarc tag....

[JRandomFreeper]

Yes, I've seen all of that, and didn't want to be the one to post the name or the location of the owner.

Did you follow the senki.org rabbit trail?

/johnny

[woodenickel]

We are from the govmint and we are here to help

[Secret Agent Man]

Only in this scenario you come to them...

[SkyDancer]

Trust Us, we’re from the government.

[Yulee]

I got a pop-up warning me that my computer was infected, and since I couldn’t seem to make the pop-up go away I just downloaded whatever it wanted me to download and now my computer is no longer infected, I guess. It is really slow, though.
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I really hope this is sarcasm.

[Right Wing Assault]

No, the virus wasn’t supposed to hit on March 8th, the FBI help computers were going to shut down. A judge ordered them to remain open for another 4 months.

Here’s the story. It’s not a hoax. Search for “dns changer” and you will find all kinds of info.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/03/court-4-more-months-for-dnschanger-infected-pcs/#more-14008

You can also go the various computer mags and find info. Here’s PC Mag: http://www.pcmag.com/search_redirect/?qry=dns+changer&searchSection=0&site=3

Of course, if you want to believe this is a scheme for big brother, big sister, and the commies to take over your computer, feel free.

[SuziQ]

"He killed me Mal, killed me with his sword".
LOVE that movie!!

[JRandomFreeper]

"How weird was that?"

Yeh, I may have watched it once or 18 times.

/johnny

[dfwgator]

"We're gonna head west. There's a rumor goin' around there might be some Internet out there. So we're headed out Californee Way."

[JRandomFreeper]

How the heck are they going to change my DNS server when it's hard coded to an IP address in /etc/resolv.conf?

I mean, I may just be a cook, but I'm not dumb enough to allow netconfig to run.

/johnny

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Here is an instant check:

http://dns-ok.us/

If you see green, you are good. Red background, not so good.

[EDINVA]

if a site doesn’t end with .gov,’it’s not likely the FBI is making any such suggestion. Wouldn’t go there for love nor money.