If you woke up this morning to find you couldn't connect to the web, then you might have be infected with a particularly sneaky piece of malware -- DNSChanger.
You won't be the only one. Potentially hundreds of thousands of other people around the world will also be getting nothing but an error message, as the FBI closes down the servers that those computers have been using for the past year.
Wait, the FBI?
The US government hasn't moved into the ISP business. Those computers have all been infected with a malicious bit of malware that needed those servers to stay online. If you're now locked off the web, you're probably one of them.
By: Ian Steadman, Edited by: Nate Lanxon
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/09/dns-changer-check-and-fix
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