Hundreds of thousands may loose Internet in July ?

shreyasstar

shreyasstar

@shreyasstar-tiLPFe Oct 21, 2024
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.

Read more: #-Link-Snipped-#

Replies

Welcome, guest

Join CrazyEngineers to reply, ask questions, and participate in conversations.

CrazyEngineers powered by Jatra Community Platform

  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Kaustubh Katdare

    @thebigk May 26, 2012

    Just a rumor. I don't see that possibility. Unless of course, if the governments and ISPs decide to do so.
  • shreyasstar

    shreyasstar

    @shreyasstar-tiLPFe May 28, 2012

    Yeah, hope so, because its everywhere...yahoo, TOI all are reporting it:
    #-Link-Snipped-#