Want Your Internet to Keep Working After July 9th?

Then click here.*

*This is a site that will tell you whether or not your machine has been affected by the DNS Changer Malware. Here's the official FBI document.

If you have been affected by the Trojan, there's also plenty of info here as to how to get rid of it and set things straight. If that all seems overwhelming or you just don't want to... give me a call.

If you haven't been infected, Mazel Tov! Read on anyhow, because this is interesting stuff!

Here's the story: Believe it or not, a Trojan called DNS Changer started infecting PCs and Macs back in 2007.

A bunch of Estonian crooks started hijacking unsuspecting Internet users traffic and redirected them to hacker-created websites. Each time a user visited one of these sites, the mob made a penny or two on advertising they had set up there. A penny or two aded up to over $14,000,000.00 by the time they got busted by the FBI last November.

Think of it as a detour on the Information Highway, so that every time you tried to go anywhere on the net, first you went through Estonia! The crooks got paid just by having you go out of your way to look at their billboards and then go over their bridge on your merry way to Facebook, or whatever. You may have seen some ads you didn't want to see and your connection may have seemed slow, but otherwise, you wouldn't have noticed.

Because the scam was so widespread, the FBI simply took over the bad guys' servers and rerouted them to play nice again. In other words, you're still taking the detour, but the G-Men took down the billboards. But that didn't actually fix the problem. The problem is, your computer is still going to the wrong address first... and on July 9, the FBI is shutting down those servers for good. Back to the detour analogy, the bridge is going to be out and the detour signs are coming down. If you don't clean out the Trojan by July 9, when you try to surf the net, your going to end up in Nowheresville. (population: you).

So... now's the time to check and see whether you or I have a little work to do. Click my first link above, and here's to finding: DNS Resolution = GREEN