WASHINGTON, USA – THE so-called Internet doomsday virus with the potential to black out tens of thousands of computers worldwide appeared to pose no major problems Monday after a temporary fix expired. Security firms reported no significant outages linked to the DNS Changer virus, as many Internet service providers have either implemented a fix or [...]
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Thursday, July 12th, 2012‘Doomsday Virus’ Fizzles Out
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012The Internet “doomsday virus” that people were warned about over the weekend didn’t quite materialize Monday — but that doesn’t mean the threat isn’t real. Several large American Internet service providers, among them ATT, Verizon and Time Warner Cable, picked up where the FBI left off early Monday morning. The ISPs were redirecting Web traffic [...]
DNS Changer Malware May Shut Down Internet Access to Over 250,000 Computers
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012(PRLEAP.COM) DNS Changer, or what some may call it the DNS Changer Trojan or Doomsday Virus, is a dangerous Trojan that is designed to make infected systems utilize rogue DNS servers. Computers infected with DNS Changer Virus will automatically connect to these malicious servers, which limits normal Internet connectivity. Essentially, DNS Changer will block [...]
TECHNOLOGY: DNS Changer virus threat passes; no significant outages
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 5–> The threat posed by DNS Changer, the headline-grabbing Internet doomsday virus, has fizzled. But tech security analysts warn that there are even more sinister viruses around. No significant outages were reported on Monday as the FBI removed a safety net erected last November to protect some 577,000 Windows PCs. Without the [...]
A sober-minded guide to Internet ‘Doomsday’
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012(CNN) — It’s been impossible to go online or turn on a TV Monday without seeing all the breathless chatter about the “Doomsday” for the Internet, when hundreds of thousands of people were expected to abruptly lose their connection to the world’s computer brain. But what caused the “Malware Monday” panic, and is it really [...]
DNS Changer virus threat passes; no significant outages
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012The threat posed by DNS Changer, the headline-grabbing Internet doomsday virus, has fizzled. But tech security analysts warn that there are even more sinister viruses around. No significant outages were reported on Monday as the FBI removed a safety net erected last November to protect some 577,000 Windows PCs. Without the FBI’s safety net, those [...]
DNS Changer malware fallout to hit today, impact overblown
Monday, July 9th, 2012DETROIT – To hear the media hype over today’s consequences of the DNS Changer malware attack, you’d think it was Y2K Part 2. As of this writing at 10 A.M. Monday morning, it’s trending #1 for national headlines. Here’s the irony–they are reading a story about malware that would have already knocked them off the [...]
DNSChanger: No, the Internet Isn’t Shutting Down on Monday
Friday, July 6th, 2012Dozens of news outfits are amping up this DNSChanger malware “event” on Monday with stories bearing apocalyptic titles like “Countdown to Internet Doomsday: Will Your Computer Survive?” or “How to survive internet doomsday” or “End of the Internet? ‘Doomsday’ virus will crash thousands of computers on July 9.” My personal favorite: “Five reasons DNSChanger victims [...]
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DNS Changer: No Harm, No Foul, Thanks to Big Brother
Thursday, July 12th, 2012NEW YORK (TheStreet) — It seems for as much as people love the idea of guardian angels and the movie stories of someone watching and protecting them from danger, these same people also clamor over their rights to privacy. They want it both ways. Except sometimes they forget that freedom comes at a cost. If [...]