DNSChanger Malware on July 9: How to Check Up for Internet Virus
It sounds like one of those annoying chain emails that show up from technically challenged acquaintances: "The FBI Will Take Your Computer Offline July 9 If It Has A Virus! Visit This Site Immediately To Check!! Forward This To Everyone You Know!!!"
But the Federal Bureau of Investigation really has posted a warning on its site about the risk of "DNSChanger" malware, which really will result in your computer getting disconnected from the Web on July 9 if you don't clean it up. You won't be able to go online, and you'll need to contact your service service provider for help getting the malware deleted before you can reconnect to the Internet.
The Infection Check
To see you're infected, you just need to be able to read one line of text or know the difference between green and red. Visit www.dns-ok.us; if you see a green background to the image on that page and the words "DNS Resolution = GREEN," you're safe. (Your Internet provider may also offer a similar service. Comcast subscribers, for example, can check their computers at amibotted.comcast.net.)
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If you see otherwise, you have a few more days to fix the problem. Since DNSChanger can disable security programs, you may not be able to do this the easy way, by clicking a "scan" button in your anti-virus app. You can try specialized DNSChanger-removal tools from such firms as SecureMac, or run general-purpose anti-rootkit software like MalwareBytes' Anti-Malware or Kaspersky Labs' TDSSKiller.
The DNS Changer Working Group, created by Internet-security experts to help clean up the problem, has also set up a page with links to manual malware-cleanup instructions from Microsoft and others. In a worst-case scenario, you may need to reinstall your computer's operating system and software from scratch, using either the disks that came with the computer or the recovery partition on its hard drive.
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