July 9 virus information - what it is & what to do

Apr 24, 2012 34 Replies

Probably everyone has heard about the virus that takes you off the internet on July 9. It has been in many papers and on news casts.



Here is an article from Ask Leo, about this problem, and what to do about it. If you haven't read it, it may be of interest to you.



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Bob


just get a mac

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How do I know that the DNS Changer Working Group link will take me to a legitimate site? ;-)

Shazzam. Might be true, even?

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nasty, for sure.

Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus

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Probably everyone has heard about the virus that takes you off the internet on July 9. It has been in many papers and on news casts.

Here is an article from Ask Leo, about this problem, and what to do about it. If you haven't read it, it may be of interest to you.

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Yow, that's probably the link that's spreading the infection.

Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus

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How do I know that the DNS Changer Working Group link will take me to a legitimate site? ;-)

If you trust the government:

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Otherwise, all the major A/V have free scanners just Google them:

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LMAO!! I'll take as much precaution as i have with the other fifty million hoaxes that have come across.

on July 9. It has been in many papers and on news casts.

If you haven't read it, it may be of interest to you.

click it and find out. I did. it's just another bullshit hoax site.

Not a hoax.

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This one is NOT a hoax, but it's not as bad as some would make it sound either.

Now check for an FBI cookie, the persistent kind.

Here is a better way to check:

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...and be dependent on the deny, delay and surreptitiously patch scrApple for fixes to mac viruses...

what mac viruses?

Are you serious? Look at the filename.

You really don't expect Malformed to keep up, do you?

The tip of the iceberg. You WILL see more apple (and unix) virus infections in the future.

it's not a virus. to be a virus it has to be self-propagating and it isn't

oh, krow, that was so cute...but wrong as usual

in fact all a mac user has to do is disable javascript or download apples latest version...either option will disable the malware

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