Bumped Off

You know that familiar "dail-up" sound when you log onto the World Wide Web?  Well on Monday that sound may be long gone.  For months the government has been discussing shutting down its internet protection equipment.  The FBI has since set up a website for support while blogs, twitter, FaceBooka and Google try to alert the general public.

According to reports, "Despite repeated alerts, the number of computers that probably are infected is more than 277,000 worldwide, down from about 360,000 in April.  Of those still infected, the FBI believes that about 64,000 are in the United States.  Users whose computers are still infected Monday will lose their ability to go online, and they will have t call their service providers for help deleting the malware and reconnecting the Internet."

So how do you keep from being bumped off the Internet?  All computer users can go to the following website to get their computer tested to see if they are infected with this particular malware: http://www.dcwg.org.

For more on this story please go to the following article: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/05/malware-may-knock-thousands-off-internet-on-monday/#ixzz1zkVNZ8Aj