SRL Archive - News and General

Just read an article, Ill post it at the bottom. tl;dr, Over 246,000 computers are infected with malware that redirects you do sites where a group of estonians profit via ad clicks. FBI is shutting down internet to any people who still have this virus on their computer tomorrow. To check if you have the virus, go to this site
http://www.dns-ok.ca/
and heres the article if you want to have a quick read.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/right-click/one-thing-sure-don-t-lose-internet-access-193421358.html
Any of you guys infected?

Your computer system does not appear to be affected by DNSChanger Malware
Strange story

Bull.

I bull you not, yahoo news is usually a reliable source. Read the article.

You are the worst reader ever. Read it again. 12% of the computers lol….

^ Totally misread that! :P Thanks

That is just the Canadian numbers, I'll find the article about the US numbers which was much higher.

Nope, I be clean

House Call says I have nothing
MalwareBytes Says I have nothing

I'm clean…

Running (Arch) Linux :spongebob:

Wired estimates 64,000 users in the United States and an additional 200,000 users outside the United States are still infected with the malware

US article - http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/blackout-monday-dns-changer-know-155840354.html

Harhar Kyle, he beat you.

From: NKN
Harhar Kyle, he beat you.

Im sure he had something more important to do since it was 2 hours since he said that. Plus i just saw it before i came here… :thumbsup:

Well I'm glad to know that I'm not infected..

Mine is clean.
I find this article very weird.

Lol, ill update the OP with ur numbers, good to know none of you are leaving us tomorrow!

From: Foooty
I bull you not, yahoo news is usually a reliable source. Read the article.

Yahoo has the stupidest stories on the web, like how to tell if your pregnant or something.

From: NKN
Harhar Kyle, he beat you.

Haha, too bad, I have a life xD

From: oneshadow
Im sure he had something more important to do since it was 2 hours since he said that. Plus i just saw it before i came here… :thumbsup:

This.

From: oneshadow
Im sure he had something more important to do since it was 2 hours since he said that. Plus i just saw it before i came here… :thumbsup:

Knowing Kyle, he didn't. He just couldn't find anything to backup his statement.

From: Kyle Undefined
This.

Refusing to admit defeat, I see? :p

@On-topic, there are only ~6000 Aussies infected, and I'm not one of them!

There's like 160 million computers in the US… and 200,000 of them are infected… media scare ftw

I'm not infected, can't remember if I said that or not.

this is just silly

Ah well I'm clean.

Quite honestly the FBI should have taken down these servers when they first captured the bot net. I mean, how do you feel that the FBI had control of the DNS servers that millions of computers were routing their DNS through, and they had the opportunity to track all of that data and store it rather than notifying people right away.

From: Daniel
Knowing Kyle, he didn't. He just couldn't find anything to backup his statement.

Refusing to admit defeat, I see? :p

Haha, by something better, i would include checking a bot.lol

From: Daniel
Knowing Kyle, he didn't. He just couldn't find anything to backup his statement.

Refusing to admit defeat, I see? :p

@On-topic, there are only ~6000 Aussies infected, and I'm not one of them!

Oh hey, way to come and post on a thread and NOT PM me that you're sorta back…a**hole. xD

Was driving my new car, it kind of just sucks me to the seat and I can't leave :p

From: Bobarkinator
Quite honestly the FBI should have taken down these servers when they first captured the bot net. I mean, how do you feel that the FBI had control of the DNS servers that millions of computers were routing their DNS through, and they had the opportunity to track all of that data and store it rather than notifying people right away.

Yeah, I was pretty pissed about this. Why wait until you turn off the servers to warn people, instead of killing them a long time ago.

From: oneshadow
Haha, by something better, i would include checking a bot.lol

Haha, nah, I honestly don't auto :p

http://dns-ok.us/ - to check if you're infected (too late now).

This isn't a joke my entire office is out of internet ;

We are all going crazy we need the Internet!! Time is money and it's costing the company a lot of money…

From: po2n star
This isn't a joke my entire office is out of internet ;

We are all going crazy we need the Internet!! Time is money and it's costing the company a lot of money…

Evidence or didnt happen! :)

From: Kyle Undefined

Yeah, I was pretty pissed about this. Why wait until you turn off the servers to warn people, instead of killing them a long time ago.

Seriously. They set up a whole organization just to run those servers that was supposed to end in January, but then they petitioned for an extension and got it extended till July. So now they're dealing with the exact same problems they would have dealt with on day 1 if they had shut the whole thing down. What have they been doing??

How should I prove we have no Internet….

^ in the article in my OP, theres tips on how to remove the virus and restore your internet.