Virus alert DNSChanger Monday million Internet could run out

Hundreds of thousands of people around the world could run out of internet access on Monday, after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) closure directional assistance servers (DNS). All computer users who unwittingly still using temporary servers from the FBI, will encounter a virtual wall and can not connect to the Internet until your equipment is free from virus "DNSChanger". The closure of temporary DNS servers for the U.S. authorities is the last stage of "Operation Ghost Click", a two-year international investigation which officially ended in November 2011. During the operation, the FBI and other investigative agencies around the world tracked and arrested a gang of six citizens of Estonia who had created a legitimate-looking company and developed a sophisticated system of false DNS servers. These servers diverted to the users of the network computers infected with the virus, sites chosen by Internet hackers, some of which were fraudulent. Computers infected with the DNSChanger virus were required to connect to the Internet through servers designated by "hackers". The DNSChanger virus was distributed by months through conventional channels of the network, such as emails and web sites infected with malicious software (malware) and according to the FBI came to infect about 650 thousand computers worldwide. When the band was dismantled last year hackers, the FBI replaced with temporary DNS servers "clean", which had been mounted by hackers through viruses, so that infected thousands of computers around the world could continue with access to the network. However, the FBI contract with the company who actually maintain these servers concludes this July 9, leading to its closure. "The FBI did not request an extension of service," confirmed a spokeswoman for the FBI Press Office, Jenny Shearer. Since November 2011, the number of computers infected with DNSChanger has been substantially reduced to about 275,000 worldwide, as a result of the efforts of the FBI and security companies to educate users to detect and eliminate the virus. But for the thousands of users whose computers are infected with the DNSChanger, his teams to continue redirecting the DNS address provided by the virus. From Monday, those users will not be able to connect to internet unless you remove the virus from your computer.

• 2012-07-09T00:07:12+00:00
• Duration: 01:59

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