Malware Deadline Passes, Very Few Knocked Offline
July 9, 2012 in WDAZ
WASHINGTON (AP) If you’re reading this online, you’re fine. The day that was supposed to see thousands of people knocked off the Internet has arrived, but only a few people were affected.
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Thousands of people around the country whose computers were infected with malicious software more than a year ago faced the possibility of not being able to get online after midnight.
If you haven’t taken the time to scan your computer for malicious software infections, you may want to do so before Monday. At 12:01 a.m. EDT, computers infected with the “DNS Changer Trojan” malware will all lose Internet service when the safety net system the FBI has been using to keep them connected to the Internet since last year are shut down. 
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