FBI Warning Public of Massive Computer Virus

[Bo Atkinson]

I'm very limited on web codes and seek insights from the insightful ones. :roll eyes:
I wouldn't know which news site to trust most either.
Please advise all of us. Thanks

newsplex.com

Updated: 7:17 PM Apr 25, 2012
FBI Warning Public of Massive Computer Virus
Internet users could soon be offline thanks to a group of hackers who created a virus that is laying dormant in an estimated 85,000 computers. And on July 9, infected computers will lose access to the internet.
Posted: 5:44 PM Apr 25, 2012
Reporter: Chris Stover
Email Address: chris.stover@newsplex.com
DNS Changer Virus: How to Check Your Computer

[KosmicKat]

When I first heard about this, I went to the FBI page (http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/november/malware_110911/malware_110911) to check it. Yes, it's real. But why they've handled things in quite this way beats me. Essentially, they set up their own clean servers to ensure continuity of service for affected users until they were ready to take their own temporary equipment out of the network (some months after seizing a collection of rogue servers at the end of 2011), which will happen on June 9th 2012. The "check" page does nothing malign as far as I can see, apart from possibly leaving the footprint of your visit, but you leave that with every site you visit anyway.

To check whether your computer may be affected, look for the "Check your computer’s DNS settings (https://forms.fbi.gov/check-to-see-if-your-computer-is-using-rogue-DNS)" link below the friendly graphic. Or not. Depending on how suspicious you are!

[Lifebringer]

Glad I downloaded plenty of literature until it passes. I'm not that curious to damage my system for gossip or entanglement of virus. I have loads of books to read with at least 200 pages in each book and am reading the "original text of YAH now. I've always had a hankering to read all the books I can lay hands on for the similarities in the search for truth about God. Somewhere they made a bluey on God's word and changed the worship and sabbath. A very bad thing to do, almost as bad as the changing of the word. It will be up to us to pay attention, just like in an exam. Examine everything, that is what your intellectual gift of thinking is for.

[Bo Atkinson]

Nothing surprises me anymore, as the saying goes...

I got a brand new little mac-mini last year to enable solar power operation, plus reuse my antique Cinema Display, when grid is up. I highly recommend this display type, as it has less goofy stuff inside.... The OSX LION system has many 'iregularities' for my particualr 3d needs... It is almost useless trying to run my latest 3d software updates. I should probably entomb my older MacPro, for after the CMEs. But the newer tools hold so much promise. C'est la vie (?)

I probably won't bother with virus protection or stuff these troll sites offer. The Mac OS updates do whatever. Get my fill that-a-way.
:faint2:

Besides collecting as much as available, in the way of pdf books and whatnot, fill the ear with data...

I think the best trick in the book is to disconnect the ethernet plug often. I even cut off the clip thing, for easier in-&-out. Never leave it plugged in unattended. My computers have always started up on their own, doing who knows what. Only in the dial up days did i seed what they did... I saw the weirdest file display once, scrolling like crazy. Switched off the phone line that time. Let the darn computer sleep. Nuff said.

[ponda]

hi wavydome,


i've found this little free app to be handy.It's a type of firewall for macs that monitors whenever your computer tries to send out for a connection to say update something or other.It's amazing how many times when i log onto a website that the computer then tries to connect to facebook or twitter etc and there are regular attempts to try to connect to google for updates etc.You just click on the 'deny' or 'allow' tabs



A firewall protects your computer against unwanted guests from the Internet. But who protects your private data from being sent out? Little Snitch does!


http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

[ljwheat]

This doesn’t smell right, for one thing its coming from the FBI?

Remember the Digital nation wide shut down of EBS (emergency broadcast System) a few months ago.

So they have the switch to throw its been tested, so you let this story out that 9 July this virus is going to shut down the internet from a agency that loves to play dress up. Cowboy’s dress as Indian’s. so when they throw the switch, and people start talking they will have this virus story already implanted in there heads as the cause.

For me not having the inter net will give me much more time to plant food, print money, talk with the Nabors, and clean my guns.

Vietnamese people taught us a lot about setting up things for the FBI and other’s to trip over. And now Afghanistan how to stop convoy’s from getting around. Hell if they would leave stuff alone we would be happy little campers with no problems, but this is like an act of war. All hands on deck, there so predictable its not funny all you have to do I listen to what there not saying. Or the opposite in there intent.

This country of all country’s 80% are trained and retired rambo’s able and willing to take that next step. Talk about stupidity, and they trained us. Go figure. Just a thought, I’ve got plenty of books too. and nabors.