Blog admin received this from the broadband telecom company by email and verified it by phone call and visit to the website. You can verify the information yourself by your own methods. (if it’s a hoax, we’ll just file an administrative complaint against the broadband company for spreading it in an official communication)
“We have received information from international agencies that a rampantly spreading DNSChanger malware may infect the computers of internet users globally. If your computer is infected, this malware redirects you to fraudulent websites and DNS servers and can interfere with your online browsing.
“We strongly urge our Broadband subscribers to take the necessary steps to check their computers as soon as possible. If infected, they should remove the virus from their computers immediately. If your computer is infected, you may lose access to the internet by July 9, when U.S. authorities will shut down the temporary servers that continue to allow infected computers to access the internet.
“Checking the status of your computer is easy. Simply click on the US FBIs DNS Changer Working Group, or DCWG, web site at http://www.dcwg.org/, the group working on cleanup resulting from the malware, or click on this link http://www.dns-ok.us/ to find out the status of your computer: green means it is safe; red means it is infected.
“If your computer test results to green, no further action is needed. But, if your test results to red, please visit the ____________ (blog admin’s broadband website) at _________________ ( url of site to check your computer, this links you to www.dns-ok.us ) for a step-by-step instruction on how to recover your computer from this malware.
“We also encourage you to visit our website to read more about this issue.
“We hope this information ensures that you continue to experience seamless internet services.
This will give you a rectangle (geometric shape) with conical symbols of “people” inside: If the color of the rectangle is green, your computer is notinfected. Easy. So it looks like this:
If the color of the rectangle is red, your computer is infected.
There’s some literature (explanation) below the rectangle. My computer is not infected. don’t know what the red rectangle looks like.
[i suppose the FBI got the necessary court orders for this: shutting down access to the internet of some 250,000 infected computers and red-flagging the rest and shutting down their temporary servers (if non-consensual on the part of the servers) by July 9]
I am Tristan Delgado. I graduated with an undergraduate degree in Communication Research in 2006. I was your student in Journalism 101 (Introduction to Journalism) and Communication 120 (Law on Mass Media).
Ma’am, I have pursued studying the law (at the Ateneo Law School) and I am now looking for possible topics for my JD thesis. The law on mass media continues to interest me, and so, as a professor and practitioner of media law, you might have insights that could be developed into a full-blown thesis. I would like to ask you about them, Ma’am.
Thank you very much for your time and attention Ma’am, and I’m sorry to use the Comment mechanism in your blog to contact you.
Sincerely,
Tristan Delgado
Reply:
Dear Mr. Tristan Delgado,
Thank you for writing. The following are relevant media law topics that might interest you: 1) the pending Freedom of Information Act (House Bill) ; 2) the Data Privacy Act (Senate Bill); 3) Libel in the internet, Philippine setting (there is still no Philippine jurisprudence on libel in the internet, especially on the matter of venue); 4) Remedies for a speedy trial, journalist killings; 5) Cyberbullying and remedies; Philippine and international case studies.
