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posted June 17, 2012 09:14 AM            

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IF you have a specific malware.

Check your computer and be up on this viral problem.
http://www.clarkhoward.com/videos/clark-howard/technology/got-malware-you-might-run-this-free-test/vG42g/

scan link
http://www.dcwg.org

I`m green and good to go...

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posted June 18, 2012 10:27 AM            

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thanks for the heads-up juni... green here too

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posted June 18, 2012 01:35 PM            

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Mine is clean, too.

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posted June 18, 2012 05:13 PM            

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I`m happy you both tested green. There are so many virus/malware hoaxes floating around that I`m afraid no one is taking this a little more seriously.

I may have blown it off too but I read the FBI is encouraging all to test and be safe.

Unfortunately, this is to be taken seriously

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posted June 19, 2012 01:58 AM            

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Thank you for bringing this up. I saw something on the news about it a month or so and never checked.

After checking it looks like I"m in the green.

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posted June 19, 2012 06:55 PM            

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Wow, that was soooooo super fast and simple! Green for me also.

Everyone should go and check their computers out, because this is a really nasty malware program. No actual scan is necessary; you just go to the site of your country to instantly see if your system is reading DNS properly.

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posted June 27, 2012 11:07 AM            

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*bump*

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posted June 27, 2012 07:14 PM            

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Thanks Juni, for posting this.

And thanks Randall for bumping, or I would have missed this.

So I ran the scan. It came up green. BUT the message also gives a disclaimer--

"Your computer appears to be looking up IP addresses correctly!

Had your computer been infected with DNS changer malware you would have seen a red background. Please note, however, that if your ISP is redirecting DNS traffic for its customers you would have reached this site even though you are infected."

So I'm confused. If I could have reached the "green page" even if I'm infected, then how does this test help??

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posted June 27, 2012 11:56 PM            

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You shouldn't worry about that unless, as it says, your ISP is redirecting DNS traffic.
Though I have absolutely no idea what that means

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posted June 28, 2012 10:43 AM            

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^ Gee thanks for the expertise, CS!!

I guess, we're just going to have to wait to see if a tech savvy person hops on to this thread to enlighten us!!

But your laughter sure helped me<--- being genuine here

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posted June 28, 2012 11:55 AM            

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The chance your ISP is redirecting DNS traffic is infinitesimally small. This is something temporarily done by techs when there is a problem they are trying to fix.

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posted June 28, 2012 06:31 PM            

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^ Ok, Randall Thanks. I understand that to mean that I don't have to worry about it.

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posted June 29, 2012 12:20 PM            

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You can always contact your ISP and ask them, but it's not a big concern.

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posted June 29, 2012 02:43 PM            

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Not exactly a fan of those free virus scanners.

Half the time your actually downloading a mallware pretending to check your system.

I would suggest everyone who clicked that link to do a rescan now with Norton or McAfee.

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posted June 29, 2012 06:18 PM            

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It's not really a scan. It's just a link check for DNS.

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posted July 05, 2012 04:02 PM            

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*bump*

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posted July 06, 2012 05:33 PM            

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It's legit. But it only affects about 250,000 computers worldwide and around 70,000 in the US.

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posted July 06, 2012 05:42 PM            

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Hmm apparently it can check cell phones too. I'm on green as well. Someone once told me phones can pick up viruses too so I thought what the heck and checked since this is how I access the internet (thru my phone).

A friend of mine asked me to go look at her computer and her system showed a few viruses and something called a spambot and god knows what else and I tried to fix it but it won't let me online. I wonder if this was y...

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posted July 19, 2012 02:46 PM            

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Hope no one here was affected.

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posted July 21, 2012 11:41 PM            

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What did you use to check her system?

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