'Internet Doomsday' on July 9?

08 July, 2012

A deadly virus seems to be on loose and around 25,000 computers are at the risk of getting affected by it. Although care has been taken to see to it that nothing of the sort happens; yet nothing concrete can be said at the moment.

DON'T BE surprised if on a Monday morning, you reach office and find your Internet isn’t working, as according to a rumour, around a quarter million computer users are at the risk of losing Internet connection due to a malicious software. This software was at the heart of the US hacking scam and was shut down by the authorities. Calling it the 'Internet Doomsday,' some blogs have also alluded to the fact that there can be a complete virtual 'blackout.'

However, the authorities are not that concerned as they say that a very few Internet users would be subjected to this risk and that too Internet providers would be at hand to correct any such situations, according to The Times of India. The threat, according to authorities is small when compared with to other viruses such as the Zeus and SpyEye, which infect millions of PCs and are used to commit financial fraud.

The present virus was designed to redirect Internet traffic through rogue DNS servers that would be controlled by criminals. The FBI divulged this. This week around 245,000 computers worldwide were still infected by Alureon and its brethren, as per the security firm Deteque. This figure includes 45,355 computers in the United States.

When the rogue servers were taken down, a federal judge in New York ordered all the victim's computers be repaired. The temporary servers will shut down at 12:01 am EDT (0401 GMT) on Monday that also points to the fact that the infected PCs that have not been fixed will no longer be able to connect to the Internet. Seven people have been charged in the US for this worldwide virtual fraud. One of the seven, who is in Russia, is still at large while other six were arrested from Estonia.

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Geet

well some of the computers were off Internet for precautionary measures

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Rahul

it did not happen.

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Dilshan

Remember the hype of Y2K issue? Nothing happened.... Same at this time. Nothing will happen. These are just momentary issues created by some stupid groups.

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