Internet Doomsday...what?

What is this? This is the first time I'm hearing about this...

http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/...call-wipe-dnschanger-internet-doomsday-854340

Wow. Not sure what to say about that excpet "wow". This is the first time I've heard of this, as well. You'd think something like this would get more attention.

My computer's okay. Phew. But I don't understand why people would want to do something like this. Maybe I'm naive, but it's mean.

Did you go to that site thats supposed to scan for it? I haven't seen any strange alerts from google for facebook. And what I don't get is if the trojan affects your computer or your router, and how you even get it...

I went to the site that the article linked, and it said I was clear, plus I haven't seen any notifications from Facebook or Google recently. Thank goodness, because I looked at the manual way to change the settings and my eyes glazed over.

Lol, yeah, I got green, too. And that article about the settings....I'm fairly good with the inner workings of software, but I'm no techy and that just made my brain hurt trying to understand it

I heard about this some time ago, but I'm not too worried, I don't think much is going to come out of this... like that whole Cornficker scare a couple of years ago or so, nothing happened.

Besides, I can easily live without Google, Facebook, and Twitter.

Um...it says that they shut off your internet completely.

But yeah, if this is the first time I'm hearing about this, and I wouldn't have heard about it if someone didn't post it on deviantart, it must not be that big of a deal. My first thought was that it was a hoax, but its from nbc, not some unknown news source :/

I know, I was just pointing out how they made it a point to mention, "This means no Google, no Facebook, no Twitter".

But yeah, if I see that on July 9 I can't access the internet, then yeah, I'll be screwed, but again, this is like back in 2009 or so when this whole Cornficker or Conficker or whatever it was called was supposed to do the same thing to computers all over the world... come to think of it, I think a few years before that, a similar scare went around and nothing happened... I guess this is just something that we have to deal with every once in a while, like a comet or something.

If ANYTHING, the people who have to worry about this are the people who download A LOT of illegal stuff.

Which I don't, so yeah...

I wonder how all of this will affect my webcomics?

unless you have this apparent trojan, not at all

I've had problems with trojans in the past (usually from questionable ads from deviantART), but presently, all my programs: anti-malware, anti-spyware, anti-virus are all turning up clean.

I have the feeling that if this were really a big deal, it would be posted on all the major news networks and not buried in an MSNBC article. It seems like a ploy to scare people into clicking the available link and buying another anti-virus software package.

That's a great possibility... it's like a lot of these advertisements you see on TV or hear on the radio, "Go to My Clean PC dot com" or "Go to Double My Speed dot com" or "Go to Finally Fast dot com for a free scan of your PC, remove any hidden viruses, spyware, malware, trojans, unwanted registry changes, and your PC will be like new again, yadda-yadda-yadda", when most, if not all, of that is just scams and actually cause MORE harm to your computer than it does help.

Uh, this is a bit nerve-wracking! Hopefully your theory is right, Jamie!

I'm not gonna worry about it. Probably a hoax...

I just realized I said nbc in that one post, not msn. Oops. Hopefully you got what I meant.

I'm not worried about it either. It just took me off guard when I saw it. I was seeing if I missed something important. Guess not XD

Because they're LOOOOOOOOOSERS, Charlie. Complete and utter LOOOOOSERS! I mean, it's loserdom above internet trolling. To come up with the program to screw with everybody just for craps and giggles.... total freaking worthless losers.

You know what sucks? When you have NO choice to click on the link and it loads automatically.

Here's something... They can clamp down on child porn (which is serious and needs to be dealt with anyway) and Copyright infringement (with a billion times more efficiency than child porn), but they run around like Keystone Cops and Pete Puma when it comes to dangerous virus hackers. We have YET to see someone punished for their virus.