Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 9:37 AM

July 9, 2012 Computer Virus Day

Does anyone have any additional info about a computer virus which is supposed to put millions of computers out of commission on July 9, 2012? I went to this site and checked out my computer:

https://forms.fbi.gov/check-to-see-if-your-computer-is-using-rogue-DNS

If anyone knows of anything else we can do to protect our computers, please advise. Thanks!

paoli2453 posts since
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1. Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 9:54 AM

I found some more info about this issue in this MSNBC Technology article.

KenBDG5,146 posts since
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2. Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 10:10 AM

Thanks Ken. Your link is much easier to access and we can check out our computers on it also.

paoli2453 posts since
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