How to avoid July 9 'Internet Doomsday'

The lingering effects of an online advertising scam are affecting
hundreds of thousands of Internet users -- and the FBI’s final fix for
the problem may leave them without Internet access.

The problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising
scam to take control of infected computers around the world. The FBI
set up a safety net months ago using government computers, but that
system will shut down July 9. At that point, infected users won’t be
able to connect to the Internet.

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http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/...#ixzz1stp35qLO

On 2012-04-23 17:09 , ASCII wrote:
charles wrote:
The lingering effects of an online advertising scam are affecting
hundreds of thousands of Internet users -- and the FBI’s final fix for
the problem may leave them without Internet access.

The problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising
scam to take control of infected computers around the world. The FBI
set up a safety net months ago using government computers, but that
system will shut down July 9. At that point, infected users won’t be
able to connect to the Internet.

Read mo
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/...#ixzz1stp35qLO

Quick test - http://dns-ok.us/

Flawed test as it can't test for ISP DNS re-directs.

Simply audit your router and computer DNS settings:

See the table on the penultimate page of this fbi description:
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011...er-malware.pdf

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