Hundreds of thousands may loose Internet in July ?

Google plans to warn more than half a million users of a computer infection that may knock their computers off the Internet this summer.

Hackers have infected a network of probably more than 570,000 computers worldwide. They took advantage of vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows operating system to install malicious software on the victim computers. This turned off antivirus updates and changed the way the computers reconcile website addresses behind the scenes on the Internet's domain name system.

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  • Kaustubh Katdare
    Kaustubh Katdare
    Just a rumor. I don't see that possibility. Unless of course, if the governments and ISPs decide to do so.
  • shreyasstar
    shreyasstar
    Yeah, hope so, because its everywhere...yahoo, TOI all are reporting it:
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