http://www.bookwormroom.com/2012/04/20/according-to-the-ap-in-july-the-fbi-will-stop-protecting-people-from-a-malevolent-computer-virus/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:06:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2012/04/20/according-to-the-ap-in-july-the-fbi-will-stop-protecting-people-from-a-malevolent-computer-virus/comment-page-1/#comment-140930 Indigo Red Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:46:31 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=22266#comment-140930 It’s not all that ominous. A group of criminal geeks hacked servers in Estonia causing users queries to end up at sites that paid advertisers and routed the pay-per-clicks to themselves. The geeks got $14 million from the scam. They were busted and the servers were going to be confiscated, but that would have left thousands of valid customers without Internet service. The FBI called in a legit computer geek who subbed clean servers for the dirty and the FBI has been running the replacements for 8 months costing US taxpayers $87,000 – US had highest number of victims at about 85K. The substitute servers are to shutdown in July so anyone who thinks their computer may be infected has a final opportunity to scan their machines and fix the problem. I am doing so as I write this using Microsoft Safety Scanner because a few months back I saw unusual activity from Estonia, Russia, and Ukraine. I cleared the problem then, but I just want to be sure.

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I’d say that anyone who has anti-virus software is safe and probably doesn’t to worry about this. 

]]> http://www.bookwormroom.com/2012/04/20/according-to-the-ap-in-july-the-fbi-will-stop-protecting-people-from-a-malevolent-computer-virus/comment-page-1/#comment-140922 Ymarsakar Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:42:04 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=22266#comment-140922 The AP is an associated of enemy media agents. Believe them if you must, but the consequences are almost always negative.

]]> http://www.bookwormroom.com/2012/04/20/according-to-the-ap-in-july-the-fbi-will-stop-protecting-people-from-a-malevolent-computer-virus/comment-page-1/#comment-140919 SADIE Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:41:06 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=22266#comment-140919 I know exactly what to make of it – an attempt to grab as many IP addresses as possible by instilling fear. File this under: Y2K scare. Such chutzpah and fear mongering is simply beyond the pale. Last year alone, the Senate, FBI, NASA, Homeland Security and the Pentagon were hacked and that’s the short list.

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