DNS changer alert
 

This is not a spam or an offsite ad so please don't delete it or send a false report on me about this it is very important you should know what is going on right now until Monday please read this and see if your computer is safe.

http://5newsonline.com/2012/07/06/in...coming-monday/

Glad you put this up here. The people need to know

People do need to know... i had to wipe my mom's laptop last month to get rid of it.

I used dcwg.org to determine if either my laptop or my mom's would face a problem. It said both of ours was working properly.

I don't think they gave proper notification of it, honestly. I didn't know anything about this until this afternoon when my mom brought the paper home. Not to mention, the news article did not tell you how you could test this at all. Which is most ridiculous!

I think they went about this all the wrong way.

it did say how to test. it was the first link on the article

Hyjin; I was talking about the article in the newspaper. It just said how people would lose internet Monday and how the FBI did this to save us. Pathetic little paper.

oh sorry thought you meant the online one

No. But I haven't even seen anything really online talk about it either.

I wonder why.

its on some news websites

But I would of thought such huge thing would have been given more informational spaces on news channels, sites, papers, etc.

yeah but i think they wont make it a big deal until it happens

Of course not. Then there will be a mass flux for call centers and such. It's going to be a huge pain.

yeah it will be im just glad my house is clean from that thing

As am I.

But I can see where this will become a huge issue, that providers will use to charge people money for the issues to get fixed.

yep. they will take advantage of that

I can see how my provider will now. They'll charge to have someone go out there, charge for replacements, etc. They can be such dicks!

that they can be

Not to mention all the spam, fake things that will start popping up to try and say they can fix it for a "low" fee, and then break it worse.

yeah i avoid those and fix it myself

I try to DIY. Unless it is something serious, then I go to a professional.

Those websites that test for you can be wrong.

If your ISP reroutes, you'll still get the things saying you're okay and everything. Though if they don't and you still get the a-okay...you're good.

Thank God for Fox News or I wouldn't know about this at all DX

Well I checked my computer and my moms and it looks like they are ok for now we just have to wait until tomorrow(Monday) to see if it worked or not.

It's monday. Mine still work.

yeah over here we were warned like 2 months ago

i still have interwebs yay

Remember, your Internet Service Provider could be rerouting you so the fact that you have internet doesn't mean you aren't infected.

Just saying.

i was at bestbuy yesterday buying a new laptop and at their tech support i saw so many people inline holding their computers and the ones that were being worked on were being fixed for the dns problem

I've got all kinds of firewall crap things going on in my computer so meh.

Our Best Buy around here is pretty crappy, or so I hear. But my store (Staples) isn't much better.