Fbi internet doomsday virus

Last week, , computers were said to be still infected with the so-called Alureon virus, according online security firm Deteque, including 45, U.

Wired estimates 64, U. According to Reuters , U. Online security firms, Facebook and the FBI are offering free diagnostic checks for users whose computers may be infected. Here are links to several:. Of course, that hasn't stopped local media outlets from breathless reporting on the looming "blackout. The media hype over a potential "blackout" threatens "to obscure what has been a highly successful effort--one of few to date--to stamp out a global online scam and malware infestation," Paul Roberts wrote on Threatpost.

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Story highlights FBI turns off computer servers that prop up people infected with a piece of malware The DNSChanger malware affects how computers look up Internet addresses FBI: A "click-jacking" scam leads to the issue Relatively few computers remain infected with the program.

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 warranted? Virus affecting scores of Internet users Users face possible Internet blackout It will tell you, with near certainty, whether your computer or smartphone or whatever has been compromised by the DNSChanger malware, which is the thing everyone's talking about.

The return of Christ. Environmental or economic collapse. Remember Snowmageddon? Just read coverage of the so-called Internet Doomsday virus, which will supposedly strike and shut down the Web on July 9. Here's how the story got started. If the feds simply shut down the Estonian servers, the 4 million infected machines -- nearly 1 million of which were in the United States -- would be unable to reach the Internet.

To give the cyber-crime victims time to clean up their machines, the FBI contracted the Internet Systems Consortium ISC to maintain valid servers in place of the criminal servers. The new servers would remain online until March 8, And so it came to pass that the FBI tried to warn the people, but the people were not listening. The people were too busy swatting the pop-up ads that buzzed like flies around TMZ.

By early February , nearly half of all Fortune companies and half of all major federal agencies still had computers infected with the virus -- along with , other computers around the world. If the government shut down its proxy servers on March 8, as was planned, all of these computers would be unable to access the Internet.