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PenMan1

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Over a year ago, the FBI chose to leave up a hacking ring's computers to keep from causing havoc with Internet Service Providers around the world.

Had the FBI just shut down the servers when they arrested the hackers, a malware would then "eat" the ability to connect to your ISP. The FBI chose to "scrub" the servers and leave them up until they could access the level of corruption.

MONDAY, the FBI shuts down the scrubbed servers. Any machines that have not been fixed will be unable to connect to any ISP. FBI ESTIMATES A FEW HUNDRED THOUSAND COMPUTERS STILL INFECTED.

The checking address is:
Http:||DCWG | DNS Changer Working Group

For more information:
There are many places to find it. Here is one.


Google: Google Online Security Blog: Notifying users affected by the DNSChanger malware
 
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leehljp said:
So that is why the APOD (Astronomy Picture Of the Day) (NASA) was probably not posted for two days - Monday and Tuesday. :wink:
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Nop; I hoped APOD hadn't been cut by NASA, but it turned out they are in Washington DC, and lost power in their area for the two days they were off-line. My brother also lives in that are and he was without power for about the same period.

To anyone interested in space and astronomy photos, APOD is a treasure trove of photos and a few videos.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
 
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The FBI/NASA estimates less than 1/2 million computers still infected. THAT's a GOOD THING, as long as you are not one of the 500,000.
 
I have done some programing before and I can see a lot of people being shut down because of this. I will say one thing for computer security Firewall,antivirus, and others try IObit. {http://www.iobit.com/} They have some of the best you can get in the line of security programs.
 
If you can't get the detection site to load (like most of my PCs at work today) it's fairly easy to check to see if your PC has the correct DNS server IP address.

Go to Start/Run and type in CMD and hit the enter key. This should bring up a DOS window.
Type in: ipconfig /all
(note there is a space between the end of ipconfig and the slash.)
Hit enter.
You may have to scroll back up the the Ethernet section, but look for the DNS server ip adddress.

It should look something like 192.168.x.xxx (where x can be within a range of numbers).

It should NOT be in any of the ranges in the bottom of this page:

Checking Windows 7 for Infections | DCWG
 
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