Thursday, July 5, 2012

Beware: You May Lose Internet Service Monday

From the Las Vegas Sun: Despite repeated alerts, tens of thousands of Americans may still lose their Internet service Monday unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their machines more than a year ago.
The warnings about the Internet problem have been splashed across Facebook and Google. Internet service providers have sent notices, and the FBI set up a special website.
According to the FBI, the number of computers that probably are infected is more than 277,000 worldwide, down from about 360,000 in April. Of those still infected, the FBI believes that about 64,000 are in the United States.
People whose computers are still infected Monday will lose their ability to go online, and they will have to call their service providers for help deleting the malware and reconnecting to the Internet.
 http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/jul/05/malware-could-knock-thousands-internet-monday/
You can check your computer here:  http://www.dcwg.org/
It takes about 10 seconds to check.
Good luck come Monday morning.

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