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dant:

There is a "big spread" front page news on the Sunday Oregonian.


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But in any case, to me it looks like this FBI group is seriously trying to justify their existence or something.
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My thoughts exactly and perhaps it is designed to be alarming and
self-serving?

What is unusual is for the FBI to provide this information (and not the
DHS Cyber agency), and did not provide the specific malware/infection,
then provided a website for a "solution". It does not pass the nose test.

Any computer repair "advice" given by persons/agencies ought to tread
carefully. Instead of acting on fear and following instructions like a useful
idiot, perhaps it is better to do your own independent research on how to
best check your computer for infections. Knowledge protects!

I have seen many manipulative operators out there preying on the fears
of the computer-illiterate (and sometimes the experts as well) and take
them for a ride.

Aside from Trojans, other bad ones I have seen is where a user visits a new
website and a pop-up message says your computer is infected (simultaneously
infecting the computer) then takes you to the  repair company's website with
instructions for payment/call/support to remove the infection they caused in
the first place, sometimes via proxies.  There are many, many "war stories" on
this subject.

Guardian:
DNS Changer was a very prolific infection, it could, and did, do some serious damage, but what they're not telling you is that if you use a commercial provider like Verizon, AT & T, Frontier, Charter, etc. you were most likely cut off by your provider months ago, informed your machine was infected, and provided with cleaning instructions.

I'm in total agreement with PROVIDERS temporarily suspending net access to customers whose computers are infected with malicious software, as long as they detect these infections by the malware's attempt to propagate over their services.

However, there is/was no reason for the government to intercede.  Once they seized the servers they could simply have notified any providers still unaware of the situation.

Jason (ocean59):
I think this may be a litmus test of sorts - if they can pull this off without too much resistance, just imagine what the next step might be...probably not a small scale trial run such as this.

It's not like it would even be hard to imagine that the same people wanting the kill-switch powers being connected to the authorship of the virus itself...but that is just wild speculation on my part.

Palinurus:

--- Quote from: Jason (ocean59) ---I just received a strange warning message from Google Chrome while accessing this thread (all other threads are loading normally for me).
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Hi Jason (ocean59),
I duplicated your moves and went to the designerterminal website as well, and nothing happened.

I use Opera browser, AVG security suite and CA Anti-spyware - none of them bleeped. So my guess would be: False positive or just a glitch in Google Chrome. FWIW.

Laura:
If anybody ever gets a notice like that about our sites, PLEASE take a screen shot to accompany the report.

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