| Photography General Interest Neat Photo stuff NOT particularly about Rangefinders. |
 |
Will Your Computer STILL Access the Internet On Monday? |
 |
07-07-2012
|
#1
|
|
Head Bartender
CameraQuest is offline
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: over the hills from Malibu
Posts: 3,678
|
Will Your Computer STILL Access the Internet On Monday?
"As many as 64,000 Americans' computers may still be affected by malware that will cause them to lose Internet service come Monday, so if you haven't already, make sure you aren't among them."
see http://www.latimes.com/business/tech...,2973272.story
computers infected with the DNS malware will be shut off the internet.
Stephen
|
|
|
|
|
07-07-2012
|
#2
|
|
Dust bowl state of Texas
colyn is offline
Join Date: May 2006
Location: CowTown, Texas
Age: 59
Posts: 3,786
|
Linux here..............so no worries...........
__________________
Colyn
Hot dry Texas....
Leica M2 | M3 x 2 | IIIa x 2 | IIIc | IIIf black dial | Canon P | Canon 7 |
Flickr
My website
My Gallery
|
|
|
|
|
07-07-2012
|
#3
|
|
Preserving Old Technology
Rob-F is offline
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: secret midwestern underground bunker
Posts: 3,420
|
Any worries for OSX Snow leopard?
__________________
“There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.”
--John Ruskin
|
|
|
|
|
OSX is at risk too |
|
|
07-07-2012
|
#4
|
|
Registered User
MikeAUS is offline
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 203
|
OSX is at risk too
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob-F
Any worries for OSX Snow leopard?
|
Despite the propaganda from Apple, yes your shiny Mac can attract malware and viruses 
See here --> http://www.dcwg.org/detect/checking-osx-for-infections/
You would have to be pretty stupid to have this malware on your PC though!
__________________
Sony RX100
|
|
|
|
|
07-07-2012
|
#5
|
|
Registered User
ssmc is offline
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 386
|
I'm clean 
Vista 64 SP2
Scott |
|
|
|
|
07-07-2012
|
#6
|
|
Striving
ChrisN is offline
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Canberra
Posts: 4,270
|
According to this site:
http://www.dns-ok.gov.au/ (that's an official Australian government site)
my PC is clean. Fingers crossed! |
|
|
|
|
07-07-2012
|
#7
|
|
Registered User
loquax ludens is offline
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 683
|
Linux here too. Anyway, I run my own name server.
|
|
|
|
|
07-07-2012
|
#8
|
|
Dust bowl state of Texas
colyn is offline
Join Date: May 2006
Location: CowTown, Texas
Age: 59
Posts: 3,786
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by loquax ludens
Linux here too. Anyway, I run my own name server.
|
I found that open DNS is faster than my IP's DNS...never tried my own DNS..
__________________
Colyn
Hot dry Texas....
Leica M2 | M3 x 2 | IIIa x 2 | IIIc | IIIf black dial | Canon P | Canon 7 |
Flickr
My website
My Gallery
|
|
|
|
|
07-07-2012
|
#9
|
|
ʎlʇuǝɹǝɟɟıp sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝS
kdemas is offline
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 3,152
|
My Mac is clean....whew  |
|
|
|
|
07-07-2012
|
#10
|
|
Dave
lam is offline
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Ohio
Posts: 610
|
I'd hope so,
but until then, I can play with some javascript and html5 using font bomb to do fun things like this, |
|
|
|
|
no problem here |
|
|
07-07-2012
|
#11
|
|
Registered User
randolph45 is offline
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Sacramento Calif
Posts: 731
|
no problem here
No problem here I took the film out of the hardrive
__________________
I finally realized why my photographs are so bad! It's not the equipment 
|
|
|
|
|
07-08-2012
|
#12
|
|
Registered User
willie_901 is offline
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 1,987
|
One word:
OpenDNS
It's free and trivial to implement.
http://www.opendns.com/ |
|
|
|
|
07-10-2012
|
#13
|
|
Registered User
timor is offline
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 414
|
It sounds like a scare tactics: or reformat your disk and reinstall Windows (brrr...ouch) or submit your computer to full FBI inspection (voila !) Looks like another hype pulled by the governments for leagal access to citizens computers. I wonder how many video and software pirats they trapped.
|
|
|
|
|
07-10-2012
|
#14
|
|
packin' light
buzzardkid is offline
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Assen, The Netherlands
Age: 42
Posts: 6,863
|
I run a home network, my DNS server is the router... and the Mac with Snow Leopard cannot connect through the internet without passing through the router...
Problem solved.
__________________
Cheers, Johan
Leica II (1932), Elmars 50 & 135, Heliar 50: the nickel kit
Leica II (1942), Minifinder, Canon 28, W-Nikkor 35, Elmar 90: the chrome kit
Ricoh GXR Monochrom
Visit johanniels.com! |
|
|
|
|
07-11-2012
|
#15
|
|
Moderator
jsrockit is offline
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: NYC
Age: 39
Posts: 11,764
|
Number seems very low... 64,000? I'm sure there 64,000 affected by malware every single day.
|
|
|
|
|
12-30-2012
|
#16
|
|
Registered User
durgaprasadzone is offline
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 2
|
I hope yhis gaganam thanks for info
|
|
|
|
|
12-30-2012
|
#17
|
|
Camera hacker
Phil_F_NM is offline
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Ciudad de Jersey, Nuevo Jersey
Age: 36
Posts: 2,114
|
Linux! You all should be free.
Phil Forrest
|
|
|
|
|
12-30-2012
|
#18
|
|
PF McFarland
farlymac is offline
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Roanoke, VA
Posts: 2,208
|
It's Monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !
Yep, still good to go on the net.
PF
|
|
|
|
|
12-30-2012
|
#19
|
|
Registered User
astro8 is offline
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Sydney
Age: 50
Posts: 801
|
Why only "Americans"?
|
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
All times are GMT -8. The time now is 03:16. |
|
|
