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    Maximum PC | DNS Malware to Knock Hundreds of Thousands of PCs Offline Monday

    Maximum PC | DNS Malware to Knock Hundreds of Thousands of PCs Offline Monday

    Come Monday, the Internet will go dark for potentially hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting PC users unaware their system is infected with a DNS changing virus.
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    Here's a site at which you can quickly test your computer to see if it's been compromised..

    http://www.dns-ok.us/

    (the page is a bit slow to open.. presumably lots of people are using it to test their computers)

    Here's an alternative..

    http://dns-ok.gov.au/
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    Came here to post what I learned last night in an email from a friend. Am happy to see our people already knew about this and posted. My computer gave an answer of "Green" when I tested last night.
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