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Posted on 26-4-12

D Day For Infected Windows Users
 
Some MS Windows PCs infected by viruses over the last few years have had
their DNS (domain name service, that which translates human understandable
words into internet understandable numbers and facilitates all your internet
browsing, email and etc) settings changed to point to a set of DNS servers
initially run by the virus writers. Those servers were taken over by the USA
FBI and have continued to run.
 
However the FBI servers will be shut down and when that happens, all the
infected PCs will stop working. More reading and a simple test tool are
here:
 
 
PlaNet strongly recommends all Windows Operating System users to check your
own PCs and if they are infected and if they are there is more information
on the above website about a remedy for the computer's infection.
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