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Kill Switch: FBI Could Shut Off Internet for Thousands on March 8 to Eradicate Virus

Krebs on Security reports that the malware — DNSChanger Trojan — infected more than 4 million computes in more than 100 countries thanks to the work of six men who were arrested in Estonia for the crime in Nov. 2011. Gizmodo reports that the virus causes the user to be sent to fraudulent websites by changing DNS settings and even prevents them from visiting security sites that could help rid them of the virus.

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In the United States, a half a million computers were reportedly infected with a security firm finding at least one infection in half of the Fortune 500 companies and 27 government agencies. What’s to be done? Krebs on Security reports that any computer still infected by March 8, 2012, will have Internet service disconnected from it . . . . As part of the DNSChanger botnet takedown, the feds secured a court order to replace the Trojan’s DNS infrastructure with surrogate, legitimate DNS servers. But those servers are only allowed to operate until March 8, 2012. Unless the court extends that order, any computers still infected with DNSChanger may no longer be able to browse the Web.

con. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/kill-sw ... ate-virus/

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Problem - Reaction - Solution....

That's the shadow gubment modus operandi

And there is that March date "flag" again!!!

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Sky wrote:
Problem - Reaction - Solution....

That's the shadow gubment modus operandi

And there is that March date "flag" again!!!


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