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This probably won’t affect anyone here but I thought I’d post it anyway. Basically, check your DNS settings to make sure you won’t be one of the people who’ll lost Internet access on Monday.
If your green, you should be ok. If your red, then you have a problem.
You can read the story here: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/internet-doomsday-malware-attack-threatens-180638677.html
and watch a video about it here: http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/internet-doomsday-malware-explained-helpful-video-866717
Anonymous“may cause tens of thousands of Americans to lose their Internet connection on Monday.”
Despite it saying that, towards the end of the article it also says this “Despite these warnings, the FBI estimates that there are still more than 277,000 computers infected worldwide and about 64,000 in the United States. ”
This article is a better read: http://business-standard.com/india/news/internet-doomsday-to-hit-indian-users-/479685/
Find out the IP address to those sites and continue browsing :D
I use to have fun disabling the DNS server on my computer and browse the internet using IP addresses.
173.194.33.40 is for google search engine. Just enter it in your address bar.
216.70.101.26 is for tofugu :DDNS server just associates IP addresses to web addresses.
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