Malware Alert

chumlie
chumlie Posts: 8,658
edited July 2012 in The Clubhouse
From MSN Technology page: '' To check whether a computer is infected, users can visit a website run by a group brought in by the FBI: http://www.dcwg.org. '' Moer than 277,000 computers still infected worldwide.
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  • charley95
    charley95 Posts: 908
    edited July 2012
    Thanks, Will keep an eye out for this one.
  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited July 2012
    The DSN changer is bad news, but old news. If you're regularly running updates and have anti virus software, you should be fine. FYI, if you do scan your computer with that website and come back infected, their fix is not good enough. Back up and reload your OS because if you have a DNS bug, you got a lot of bugs.

    BTW: There are roughly 1.5 billion computers in the world, so 277,000 computers isn't even .02% of all computers...
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited July 2012
    zingo wrote: »
    The DSN changer is bad news, but old news. If you're regularly running updates and have anti virus software, you should be fine. FYI, if you do scan your computer with that website and come back infected, their fix is not good enough. Back up and reload your OS because if you have a DNS bug, you got a lot of bugs.

    BTW: There are roughly 1.5 billion computers in the world, so 277,000 computers isn't even .02% of all computers...

    Stop using facts to dissuade FUD.

    That's not how we roll here.
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  • TitaniumMan
    TitaniumMan Posts: 93
    edited July 2012
    Six years and counting without a virus or anti-virus software. I've checked, and I am good to go. No DNS changer here.