Check if your computer is infected before July 9, 2012

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 FBI’s 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.

                                        “ Yours,

                                      “__________(blog admin’s broadband telecom company)”

      Blog admin’s note: IN SIMPLER TERMS: Just go type the following in your url bar or click it here:

       www.dns-ok.us

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 not infected. Easy. So it looks like this: 

(image right-clicked from www.dns-ok.us )

 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]

 

Watch Showbiz Inside Report ABS-CBN Ch.2 today Saturday 2:30pm!

 (credits: freeze-frames of a video shot by R. Interview  set-up by “Showbiz Inside Report” ABS-CBN Channel 2. Sheath dress from Khrysta’s Collezion, of course) 

Snaking on the corridor were arm-thick power cables, connecting  three long indoor shooting lights, a two-camera set-up, two director’s monitors, coming out of three to  four steel-lined leather crates, all being set up by a 12-man crew, with a real director pointing at shots on the monitors –  this is the biggest crew  that has set up a segment here.  It was a professional, clock-work production — they wrote  in advance to ask for an interview,   got here  early,  finished their establishing shots and outdoor spiels on the grounds when I got in, and started setting up indoors.

      It’s a new show!

    A production of the show “Showbiz Inside Report” of ABS-CBN Channel 2 (free tv) is in town on the topic: cyberbullying/ celebrity twitter wars/ cybercrimes. Watch the show today, Saturday, at 2:30pm-3:30pm on Channel 2 after “Showtime”.  The show premiered on Feb. 4 giving viewer the “unreported” side of stories.

One of the hosts of the show himself, Joey Marquez did the interview – he backgrounded and “pre-prod’ed” me  (pre-production question-&-answer), had research data and reports in his head. I asked why it was a big production and he said it was a new tv format that’s more investigative than the rest .  He was prepared and,  throughout the interview itself,  was serious  when we talked about the crimes —   throwing questions, listening intently, then  following up. He lightened up in the tailend of the interview when we started talking about Facebook! And charming to the admin staff off cam.

     Watch it this afternoon 2:30pm Channel 2!