{"id":4550,"date":"2012-07-06T15:52:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T19:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=4550"},"modified":"2012-07-06T15:52:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T19:52:28","slug":"thousands-may-lose-internet-access-on-monday-july-9-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/thousands-may-lose-internet-access-on-monday-july-9-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands May Lose Internet Access on Monday (July 9, 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI may cut off internet service to tens of thousands of user on Monday if their computers are infected with a certain malware program known as DNS Changer. So if you haven&#8217;t checked your PC for this particular malware, now would be a great time to do it.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dns-ok.us\/\">Visit this site to check your computer for the DNS Changer Trojan<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an article from USA Today which explains the DNS Changer threat and contains a link which will help infected users if they find they are infected:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Despite repeated alerts, tens of thousands may still lose their Internet service Monday unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their machines more than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The warnings about the Internet problem have been splashed across Facebook and Google. Internet service providers have sent notices, and the FBI set up a special website.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FBI, the number of computers that probably are infected is more than 277,000 worldwide, down from about 360,000 in April. About 64,000 still-infected computers are probably in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Internet Registration Authority said about 25,000 of the computers initially affected by the malware were in Canada, but now only about 7,000 machines remain infected there, according to Canadian Internet Registration Authority spokesman Mark Buell.<\/p>\n<p>He said his organization, together with Public Safety Canada and the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission, has developed an online site where computer users can check their computers for the malware.<\/p>\n<p>People whose computers are still infected Monday will lose their ability to go online, and they will have to call their service providers for help deleting the malware and reconnecting to the Internet&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/story\/2012-07-05\/internet-malware-q-a\/56043282\/1\">Read the rest of this article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI may cut off internet service to tens of thousands of user on Monday if their computers are infected with a certain malware program known as DNS Changer. So if you haven&#8217;t checked your PC for this particular malware, now would be a great time to do it.\u00a0Visit this site to check your computer for the DNS\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/thousands-may-lose-internet-access-on-monday-july-9-2012\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4551,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions\/4551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}