Yes, this is a real issue. I work for a state government, and the following is the email we received. I checked my home computers, and I'm fine. > For the past few weeks there have been many stories in the media about computers connectivity to Internet being impacted by a computer virus on July 9th. It is a true story. The FBI has launched an awareness campaign to scan computers for signs of the infection. Visit theFBI website for more information. > The probability of home computer’s infection is higher than work computers. BITS have taken the necessary precautionary steps, and will be monitoring the issue closely. > > For more information please visit www.dcwg.org. This site helps you to test your home computer as well. > > Click on “Detect” in the upper left corner > You will be directed to a new page. Follow the instruction. > If your computer is not infected, you will see a green logo. No additional action is required. > If you see a red logo, you will be directed to tools that can remove the malware. On Jul 8, 2012, at 3:00 AM, listowners-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Question re: DNSChanger Alert (Dee Ferris) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 14:56:58 -0700 (PDT) > From: Dee Ferris <dferris1999@yahoo.com> > Subject: [LO] Question re: DNSChanger Alert > To: "listowners@rootsweb.com" <listowners@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: > <1341698218.54198.YahooMailNeo@web130206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Hi All, > > > > I recently saw an article regarding an internet security issue and a DNS Changer malware alert, that some people may lose their internet service on Monday.?? There is apparently a simple way to check and if affected to remove the problem without losing service.?? It is true, and not a hoax per snopes.com. > > > I will post the link to the article under my signature, if anyone should want to check it.? > > > My question is - should we post this to our lists?? It's not genealogy related, and therefore would of course normally be inappropriate.? But this could be an issue for some of our subscribers. > > I would appreciate your input.? Thanks so much! > > Kind regards, > > Dee > > http://finance.yahoo.com/news/malware-may-knock-thousands-off-063924736.html > http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/dnschanger.asp >