Are You Infected.....

[jabird56]

Read the article and follow the "embedded" instructions to check your computer out. It took less then a minute to check.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/23/hundreds-thousands-may-lose-internet-in-july/

[Vortex]

Gosh, the only thing Ive read from FoxNews thats worth a darn ever! :) Thanks for posting.

[Ozark Marauder]

Probably need to check this through Media Matters...........:rolleyes:

[Bigdogjim]

I am green:) Thanks, now I need to check the laptop and netbook:up:

[RacerX]

You have no clue how many systems we clean in just a week alone. :( Macs too. In a busy week, we de-louse close to 40 sytems a week. One in 9 smart phones has some sort of crapware/spyware/malware/virus on them. My addys are all static incl dns anyway.

[MrBluGruv]

lol, it's fun to read articles about computer problems that you've known about for months on end, like they are some sort of news. This is nothing I haven't seen before (and even fixed time and time again)

When you work IT for a college campus and provide virus cleanup support therein, you would not believe the absolutely INSANE **** you find wrong with some of the machines from students. It makes you get creative in a real hurry, that's for sure.

We'd been seeing the DNS hijacks for a while, I remember some of the first times I saw attacks like that were about 4 years ago. Another popular one we saw was what we liked to refer to as the "google hijack", wherein the virus added http redirect commands for all of the major search engines and all of their regional iterations as well. Ever click on a search result in google and have it take you somewhere that makes no sense? You probably have that "virus," and it's very tricky to remove sometimes because it's only active when an http redirect is issued, and therefore many deep-level malware scanners don't pick up on it.