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Thousands of computer users can be connected to the Internet Monday after the expiration of a temporary solution to a malware scam that had been closed by the FBI last year.

What is this?  
Millions of computers infected with the so-called "doomsday" virus on the Internet used in the system of piracy, which redirects searches through the Internet DNS   servers used by the scammers. (Which, in turn, produced probably $ 14 million false advertising revenue.) After the U.S. authorities and Estonia malware broke the ring last November, a federal judge ordered the provisional use of servers FBI, while the computer victims of malicious software have been repaired. The temporary closure of servers at 12:01 am EDT Monday, which means that anyone with a computer is infected with the virus probably lose access to the Internet.

  

"Connectivity is lost in the Internet era," said Symantec, a security company online in a blog. "If the team continues to use the DNS entries that point to the servers from the FBI on July 9, lose their entire Internet access. It connects to your home office, updating Facebook  , swim in the DNS configuration set. "

How many teams have?  
It is unclear how widespread the "blackout" will be. According to a working group composed of experts in the field of security, more than 300,000 infected computers that ran from June 11, including 69,000 in the United States. Last week, the 245,000 computers, said it is still infected with the virus called Alureon Deteque company as online safety, including the U.S., 45.355 machines.

Wired U.S. estimates that 64,000 users and an additional 200,000 users outside the United States continues to be infected with malicious software, "despite repeated warnings in the news, e-mail messages sent from the ISP and sent notices to Google and Facebook. "According to the identity on the Internet, another computer security company," 12 percent of all Fortune 500 companies and four percent of the most important services of the federal United States continue to be infected with malware DNSChanger ".But it is unclear how many of these machines are still in use.

What you can do
According to Reuters, Internet providers in the U.S. and AT & T and Time Warner Cable »are temporary have become so customers can access the Internet using the address of the rogue servers DNS." And the problem, security experts said, is relatively easy to fix.

"It's very easy to solve," said Gunter Ollmann, vice president of research for security firm Damballa, the news service. "There are many tools available."Security companies online, the FBI and Facebook offer free diagnostics for users whose computers may be infected.Of course, this did not stop local media from the submission of breath comes in "blackout".

"Monday morning," said Alabama Waay TV last week, "hundreds of thousands of internet fans could wake up to find nothing but a dark screen, vacuum equipment."

The hype in the media about a possible "blackout" threat "to hide what was a highly successful effort - one of the few to date - to end a global online fraud and malware attack," Paul Threatpost . com Roberts. Six people were arrested and charged in Estonia for fraud in Internet sting. A seventh, who lived in Russia, remains at large .