Scary bit of news

[Bailey]

I wonder how many acorn users are going to go to a blank screen on July the 9th. Hope it ain't me :neutral:

Is it really impossible to remove this trojan without doing a reformat of your hard-drives ??


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2134853/Internet-blackout-set-9-July-FBI-pull-plug-350-000-virus-infected-machines.html

 

[boxfish]

What a load of bollox, doesn't even make sense.

 

[PredPred is verified member.]

don't believe the hype

scaremongering to put more controls on you and to be watched and monitored 'for your own protection'

and so I say again 'this is bollocks'

 

[PoshTiger]

+1 Pred - it's horse sh1t...

Gartner reckons there's more than 1 billion PCs in use worldwide, 350,000 is insignificant - not worthy of the story...

They could quite easily redirect the first DNS lookup to a website telling them they have a virus and how to get rid.

 

[Bailey]

I agree the piece seems a bit contradictory (typical daily mail) but there must be some grounds for this so-called 'invisible' trojan. Mind you if it's Invisable , How do they know whos computers are infected ?

 

[PoshTiger]

By checking the logs of the DNS server...

Number of different source IPs making requests = number of computers.

Not very accurate though as most IPs will be dynamic so will change.