Computer Virus will lock 4 million from the internet

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No, the Internet isn’t shutting down. Not even close. What is happening is that the FBI will turn off a couple of servers (really, just two) that it originally set up to thwart the spread of an opportunistic and irritating but otherwise innocuous bit of malware.

And when the two servers do go dark, computers still infected with the malware — currently dependent on those FBI servers to access the Internet — will lose their ability to translate Web addresses into IP addresses. For these people — a number some are calling as high as half a million but that experts place at less than 250,000 worldwide (and well below 70,000 in the U.S.) — that means any network requests made using Web addresses won’t work.



Read more: DNSChanger: No, the Internet Isn’t Shutting Down on Monday | Techland | TIME.com

DNSChanger: No, the Internet Isn’t Shutting Down on Monday | Techland | TIME.com
 

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