Technology Tip: July 9th Internet Doomsday! You might not have internet.

Technology Tip:

July 9^th Internet Doomsday! You might not have internet.  

There is s a Trojan out there that has tricked computers both PCs and Macs, into redirecting all their Internet traffic through malicious servers.  Even though the Trojan’s creators have been stopped and arrested, millions of PCs could still be infected.  For those machines, the Internet will not exist on July 9.

In the year 2007 was when the first Trojan surfaced according to PC World.  The malware, which infects both Windows and Mac computers, creates a botnet by changing the machines accessed domain name server (dns).

A Domain Name Service is how the web organizes its addresses.  It is a system that lets you simply type in “mashable.com” instead of some kind of long IP address filled with letters, decimals and numbers.  Your computer talks to a DNS server operated by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to find all the websites that you visit every day.

The trojan, called a DNS Changer, redirects your computer’s DNS queries from your ISP’s server to one created by the trojan’s creators which hijacks all Internet traffic from your machine.  That way, the bad guys can send you to hacker-created websites filled with ads whenever they want.

There is good news!  The FBI shut down the operation, called Rove Digital, last November when they arrested six Estonian nationals behind the botnet and shut down their malicious servers to ensure infected computers wouldn’t be cut off from the Internet entirely, the FBI set up its own DNS servers.

But, of course there is some bad news.  Those servers will soon be shut down. They were originally going to run only four months, but a judge ordered an extension of their operation until July 9 since it’s estimated that hundreds of thousands of computers are still infected.

If a machine still has the trojan and tries to access the web on July 9, it won’t be able to access anything.  With Internet access cut off, it would be very inconvenient to download and install anti-virus software.

If you would like to know if your computer has been infected try this link http://www.dns-ok.us/. 

If your computer has been infected, do not panic, we can help you!  We have great programs that help protect against virus and malware for your computers.  If you do have the infection we can safely and completely remove it for you.

For more information contact us at www.perfectss.com

If you would like to find more information about this you can check out these links listed below:
https://forms.fbi.gov/check-to-see-if-your-computer-is-using-rogue-DNS

http://www.pcworld.com/article/254279/fbi_steps_up_internet_doomsday_awareness_malware_campaign.html

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