Tens of thousands of computers are still infected with a virus known as the DNSChanger Malware, and risk losing Internet access Monday without taking the appropriate steps.
Computer geeks and federal agents have a warning for the public this weekend: Don’t wake up Monday with a case of the Malware Blues.
Upward of 60,000 American laptops and desktops late this week are still infected with the notorious DNSChanger Malware — a computer virus that debuted five years ago. And unless those impacted take the necessary steps, the FBI warns, they will be without Internet access come Monday morning.
Shortly after midnight Monday morning, the feds will switch off the temporary servers they had set up to let those affected by the bug safely use the Internet. The pending blackout has been ominously named Malware Monday.
To help you do so, the feds and security experts from Georgia Tech have established a detection and repair website: link.
Simply by clicking on a link on the site’s homepage, visitors can run a self-diagnostic test on their machine. Those whose machines test positive for DNSChanger are urged to buy an antivirus program such as McAfee Stinger or Norton Power Eraser, which should cure the cyber illness. Home routers might also be affected; those that are will need to be reset.
Are you aware of this?
Computer geeks and federal agents have a warning for the public this weekend: Don’t wake up Monday with a case of the Malware Blues.
Upward of 60,000 American laptops and desktops late this week are still infected with the notorious DNSChanger Malware — a computer virus that debuted five years ago. And unless those impacted take the necessary steps, the FBI warns, they will be without Internet access come Monday morning.
Shortly after midnight Monday morning, the feds will switch off the temporary servers they had set up to let those affected by the bug safely use the Internet. The pending blackout has been ominously named Malware Monday.
To help you do so, the feds and security experts from Georgia Tech have established a detection and repair website: link.
Simply by clicking on a link on the site’s homepage, visitors can run a self-diagnostic test on their machine. Those whose machines test positive for DNSChanger are urged to buy an antivirus program such as McAfee Stinger or Norton Power Eraser, which should cure the cyber illness. Home routers might also be affected; those that are will need to be reset.
Are you aware of this?
