Thousands of PCs worldwide may be unable to access the Internet beginning July 9 unless those machines are rid of the pernicious DNSChanger malware that first surfaced in 2007. The Federal Bureau of ...

In July the Internet Systems Consortium will permanently shut down DNS servers deployed to serve as temporary surrogates for rogue DNS servers shut down as part of Operation Ghost Click, an FBI ...

Today the FBI pulled the plug on malicious servers handling traffic for computers and systems infected with the DNSChanger malware — and, despite months of warnings plenty of people using infected ...

Every lousy day, here at ZDNet and all the other reputable technology news and opinions sites, we preach about basic computer security. Windows users are always the most vulnerable, but even Mac users ...

In about two weeks, hundreds of thousands of computer users are going to learn the hard way that failing to keep a clean machine comes with consequences. On July 9, 2012, any systems still infected ...

As of Sunday night, about 46,000 computers in the U.S. are infected with malicious software called DNSChanger, according to the Associated Press. The number keeps declining. Last week it was 64,000.

Millions of PCs sickened by a global computer contagion known as DNSChanger were slated to have their life support yanked on March 8. But an order handed down Monday by a federal judge will delay that ...

It’s something of a 21st Century nightmare — headlines are declaring that come Monday morning, thousands of people could wake up to a startling lack of Internet access all because of a crafty bit of ...

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The effort to clean up the DNSChanger malware attack is seeing renewed focus as the rogue DNS server shutdown deadline approaches on July 9. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

Origins: Thousands of computer users could lose access to the Internet on July 9 due to a virus, DNSChanger, that once infected approximately 4 million computers across the world. The Federal Bureau ...

Tens of thousands of U.S. internet users could be left in the digital dark on Monday when the FBI pulls the plug on domains related to the DNSChanger malware. Computers belonging to an estimated ...