Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July

[RugersGR8]

FYI: This story has been posted on Fox, AP, and other locations. I guess it is legit.


http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/23/hundreds-thousands-may-lose-internet-in-july/
Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July
Published April 23, 2012
Associated Press

 

[peanut]

They're here to protect us! Lol!

 

[Droberts]

sounds fishy. while im sure keeping in mind the convenience of protecting thousands of users from potential loss of service was nice & all, you gotta wonder what else is being done when the US govt has root access to a half a million strong botnet command server.

 

[PUMPKIN]

thats cool i finished the internet about a year ago, seen it all.

 

[sumoj275]

Ok, I am not a tech person so I read the article a few times. I get that some Estonians were stealing money through the use of the servers. So the gov't goes in busts them, and has to set up a new server since they pulled the old one. Now we have until July to get our machines straight and good to go otherwise we might be internet-less? How does one check to see if our machines are infected besides clicking on the gov't supplied site link?

 

[tRidiot]

Windows? Reformat = win.

Move one...

 

[p238shooter]

Check the Gov site so they can log your ip address.

 

[bettingpython]

It is true... Along with an estimated 11milion windows PC's worldwide wide with some sort of malware infestation...

 

[HMFIC]

Oh wait, let me allow the government to check my computer for malware...

RIGHT.

Funny, I have been a Symantic subscriber for years and have received nothing from them on it. I guess I'll call them up and ask.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

Finally something that isn't Bush fault. He didn't create the internet.